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THE PSYCHOLOGY 
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BY 
EMILY DUDLEY WRIGHT 




1909 

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'' The wind hloweth where it listeth, and thou hearest 
the sound thereof; hut can'st not tell whence it cometh or 
zvhither it goeth — so, is every one that is born of the 
Spirit.'^ 



AUTHOR'S PREFACE. 



As the world of Literature is full of Physiological 
Psychologies — that is, Psychology built upon Physiology 
— or conclusions reached from physiological causes ; it is 
my purpose in this little volume to present a Science of 
the Soul, from the light of psychic phenomena. 

Kant, Fichte, Schelling and Hegel drank from the 
well of truth for themselves and the world. 

Aristotle, Leibnitz and Froebel all psychologists — ^yet 
Froebel is the first to throw the search-light of mental 
noumena upon the teachings of Christ — the one great 
Master Teacher of the soul. " I came that ye might have 
life, and that ye might have it more abundantly," the 
abundant life — is the life of the soul — the soul in light, 
or the knowing, — or science of the soul. 

EMII.Y DUDI.EY Wright, 
Froebel Institute, 

Lansdowne, Pa. 



CONTENTS 



CHAPTER page: 

I. The Wii.1. and Its DeveIvOpment - 7 

II. Conscience as Deveu>ped by Wiiyi. - 23 

III. Soul; What it is and How Known or 

Recognized - - - - 36 

IV. Spirit as Self-Energy, or in Opposition 

TO Soul - - - - 51 

V. Mind or Source — The Fountain-head - 65 

VI. Wisdom — As a Resultant - - 78 

VII. Currents that Enswathe the Globe and 

All Worlds - - - - 93 



CHAPTER I. 



THB WILL AND ITS DBVBLOPMBNT. 

♦f^ NOW thyself. " Behold a sower went forth to 
ll\ sow; some seeds fell upon good ground and 
brought forth fruit ; some an hundred-fold, some sixty- 
fold, some thirty-fold. Who hath ears to hear let him 
hear." 

The will of man is the seed of God, the great gift of 
God to His children, the Divine inheritance — the gift 
that is wholly ours; giving us fullness of separateness 
yet, seed of the Father God; the germ of individual 
creativity and at the same time personal power. When 
the little child for the first time says, '' I will," or " I 
will not," that seed has germinated in him. I, as willf 
stands a separate entity upon the earth. I as will, am 
an actor, a creator, a doer. I (as will) am — live^ — ^have 
my being. I, as will, touch or can touch or act upon 
Divinity as well as a physical organism and physical 
world. I must (in order to be will) attend, choose and 
act; that is, I, as will, must concentrate or focus^ — must 
discriminate and create. 

Can the little child do this ? is the question asked again 
and again. I answer, " Watch the child who is wisely 
let grow;" and the meaning of Christ's words will be 
clear to all, " Except ye become as a little child, ye can- 

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not enter the kingdom of Heaven." Who hath faith like 
that of the Httle child? Faith is will; directed will — 
the attention of will and the concentration as well as the 
choice. 

In the healing of lepers, only one will returned to give 
glory, and to that one Christ said, " Thy faith hath made 
thee whole." It was his will in its three-fold activity 
that made for wholeness, and this perfect action of 
will is found more readily in the little unperverted child, 
than in the adult. To every one is given a talent. That 
talent is his will — to wrap in a napkin, to fold away in 
self -inactivity by being dominated by another's will, or 
blindly and idly following the lead of another fellow- 
being ; or, to be set forth in fullest self-activity ; to be in- 
vested, flashed out into the world and into Heaven by 
the self; thereby increasing the talent or will a hundred- 
fold. 

" By their fruits ye shall know them, the fruits grown 
by the use of will — ^and recognized elsewhere by the name 
of their quality of being. 

Our Psychologists to-day, tell us that self underlies 
mental phenomena, in fact, causes them that the self 
which creates an idea is subject, but the self that per- 
ceives itself rejoicing, is object. 

The self then is both subject and object. The I, looks 
without and gains a knowledge of the outside world — 
and the I, looks within, gaining a knowledge of self. 
What is the I? What is the self that does thus and so? 
And while it is easy to understand the look without — 
where do we look within, and by what can we as 
readily understand the within or self as subject? 

I, as will, am the cause of mental phenomena — " Be 
ye therefore a doer of the word, and not a hearer 
only." If by mental phenomena is understood acts 

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of mind as projected by will, then we know that will 
in that sense, is the cause, as will is a doer and not 
only a hearer. The will that intends and puts forth 
is the subject, and that power which called upon its 
servants of the body or its physical allies to do the 
act, is object. We can readily see by this process how 
will looks out from self as put forth into the world 
through and by physical activities. The whole weight 
of Christ's teachings rested upon two of the smallest 
words in the English language — "do " and " be ;" yet 
they are the two words that stand most emphatically 
for the definition or explanation of Will. In all full- 
ness he. To the fullest extent do. The I, or will, 
looks within also. Within what? — Body? No. Within 
where? — Brain? No. Heart? No. Soul? No — for 
man hath not yet found his soul, where it is, or what 
it is. Where then does the self-look, when it looks 
within, and from whence does it get that from which 
it chooses, and acts or puts forth from itself into the 
world? Christ tells us — by His every act of intro- 
spection, by every prayer, by every miracle, by every 
lesson taught. Within the kingdom of heaven or only 
within the gate of memory; back into the avenues of 
past time, or forward into the kingdom of God. If by 
looking within the gate or avenues of memory we will 
be enabled to create a psychology, it will only be a 
psychology that stands for self as object, and not soul 
self, or self as subject. 

Knowledge of will in its fullest operation is, there- 
fore, a key to Divine nature, as well as all nature, 
human and physical ; but to know will is to develop it, 
to increase that talent, to multiply it an hundred fold. 
And even then, we will only begin to create psychol- 
ogy- 

We are told by many educators that youth is the 

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time to explore the self world. Yet, if we know any- 
thing about the child, we have been led day by day 
into the depths and heights of psychologic problems 
by the questions, wonder and investigations of the 
little one only two years of age. " Out of the mouths 
of babes and sucklings thou hast ordained strength." 

Because the precious springtime of life has been 
wasted; because darkness has been allowed to cover 
the face of the deep ; because adult man has refused 
to look with the eyes of the little child's soul into the 
kingdom, the great majority of us know no will but 
the objective will, no self but the intellectual self, no 
soul but that created by the objective life and activity 
of body. 

The third year in high school, second year in the 
normal school, and second year in college, are the 
years given to the study of elementary psychology. 
If all the precious flashlights of soul are lost sight of 
up to this period, how great indeed is the darkness 
through which their wills must grope to find them- 
selves. The student looks at his text-book and ex- 
claims : " I, self, mind, soul are easy terms, and I will 
soon absorb this subject." Ah, yes, well for him that 
he uses the term "absorb;" he may be able to absorb 
the thoughts of another as the written word of his 
text-book, but ask him from his whole life experience 
from infancy to define the I, self, mind, and soul. 
And how many will be ready to lift the veil of the 
temple and show the clear vision beyond it? The 
child is supposed to study material things while the 
youth studies self. 

In truth, the cases are generally reversed. The 
child is studying objective things that he may under- 
stand them by his subjectivity. "Suffer the children 
to come unto me" — the little children. " Suffer, (that 

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is allow) them and forbid them not, for of such is the 
kingdom of heaven." We adults with our superior 
knowledge do forbid them continually to go to the 
within of Christ's kingdom. We forbid them in the 
home, in the school, yes, even in the Sunday-school. 

When Christ was asked who He was. His answer 
was purely psychologic — " I am that, I am." " I am 
the will of my Father. " I and my Father are one — 
I in Him and He in me, " was His oft-repeated psy- 
chologic truth. 

Pure psychology states that the will is the de- 
veloped self, rather let us consider it the developer of 
self or soul. It is the one point of departure for all 
education, all that is psychic is the true development 
of will; yet, how universal is the belief that the only 
development of will is in animal force, or subordi- 
nation to the brute force of another will. 

A short time ago, a father took his little three year 
old daughter to a kindergarten. In leaving her to the 
care of a wise kindergartner, he said : " If you break 
my child's will, that will be all I want you to do." 
This is only one instance with the great majority of 
parents, whose sole responsibility in parenthood rests 
in the training of their children to blind dark obed- 
ience, to their darker commands of will — will that has 
come through blind obedience to the powers of dark- 
ness. 

The perversion, misuse, misdirection and positive 
disuse of the great God-given talent is the whole 
cause of all the evil that is rife in the world to-day. 
The innumerable prisons filled with criminals, alms- 
houses, asylums both for the insane and the destitute. 
Talents folded away in darkness. 

If such disuse of our great Divine inheritance brings 
about such dire results, why not proclaim the truth 

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from the very housetops, if need be. Send the flash- 
light of the gospel of Christ, the psychology of 
Christ's teaching, into the homes, schools, institutions 
of all kinds, even into the churches. Yet you say, 
" The physician, teacher, and minister study medicine, 
pedagogy, and theology in the light of and side by 
side with psychology." True, but is it the psychology 
of the individual, or of the personal v^riH? The devel- 
oping will, or the stagnant will? 

How shall we bring about this great evolutionary 
revolution? Christ said: "Ye are the sons of God, 
and if sons, then heirs, joint heir with Christ." But 
we have not Avilled it so; that is, we have accepted it 
in a far-off sense of appropriation, as of something 
showered upon us. But have we willed it so, have 
we by action of will so intended, so chosen, so acted 
upon it that our wills can do even greater things than 
Christ did? Not greater ,thmgs than Christ could 
do, but greater than He did ; because in the darkness 
of the wills of men at that time Christ co\ild only do 
what they could understand. 

Development, will, evolution must be our means of 
procedure if we would bring into the world the men 
and women who will make for psychologic truth — 
" the truth that shall make us free," free from the 
chains of darkness, ignorance, spiritual inactivity, sin. 

Wise kindergartners are working in the light of 
this truth with the little ones, whose wills are divine 
messengers, who come to them in the light and truth 
of the Christ Child. But there are those even in the 
child-garden world who are, to themselves and to the 
child, trainers, teachers, commanders of little physical 
armies, that are marched and drilled, by orders and 
commands, from the great program regime, until the 
wills, the God-ordained priests of the earth, are shriv- 

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elled and dwarfed into nothingness by the incessant 
drumming of the letter of the law, upon the true self, 
until there is nothing left but many stereotyped re- 
peats of the pattern set before them. 

The world is thus filled with chaff, little wonder 
that God seems so far ofif that men must lift up their 
voices and shout to Him. 

" The veil of the temple was rent in twain from the 
top to the bottom." Ah, yes, rent, but how few saw 
then its meaning or behind the veil, and how few 
there are to-day who see behind the veil which is 
the flesh, the material, the physical world. 

It is behind and beyond the veil that we find Christ 
in His miracles, in His sermons, His prayers, bless- 
ings, and crucifixion. The whole life of Christ's 
will was beyond the veil of the flesh, into the kingdom 
of the Father. Because it was so, the Mother Mary 
questioned, wondered, and pondered all His acts in 
her heart, even when He was a tiny child. At the 
age of twelve. His will was in action behind the veil 
when in the Temple He astonished the learned doctors 
and elders. It was behind the veil that made the mul- 
titudes marvel at His wonderful miracles, and for 
the same reason made the disciples say : " Why speak- 
est thou to us in parables and speakest not plainly?" 

Christ's will was the developed self. Can we then 
truly say, as some of our psychologists of to-day say, 
"The youth and man is the developed self?" No, 
not until man as will is grown into the image of Christ 
into the likeness of the heavenly; then we will have 
selfhood, or the developed will. 

The inner world of God as known by the terms 
mental powers, intellect, feelings, and will are tools, 
machinery, doers through which mind works ; or is set 
at liberty in matter world, these three cog-wheels are 

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so interlocked in connective activity as to be really 
one action — making order or means for mind activity. 

Mental power, intellect, feeling and will are com- 
monly separated into groups, as perception, represen- 
tative thought, sensation and emotions, attention, 
choice and action. In reality, all three are one effort 
making capability ; will enters into it all, is the motive 
of all, and the motor of all. " I can do all things 
through and by the same power that strengthened 
the will of Christ." The Old Testament adumbrates 
the psychology of Christ. All through the books of 
the Bible are types of the coming will of Christ. 

Attention, choice and action may be objective, may 
be put out upon material or physical, and develop in- 
tellect, feeling and sense-will, while intention, choice 
and action will be subjective and develop wisdom, 
emotion and psychic will or self. Our psychologic 
development, our intellectual growth, depends entirely 
upon us (as will, subjected or projected). 

" I and my Father are one," " I come to do Thy 
will, oh, my God." " Not my will, but Thine be 
done." " And I appoint unto you a kingdom as my 
Father hath appointed unto me, that ye may eat and 
drink at my table in my kingdom and sit on thrones 
judging the twelve tribes of Israel." What is judg- 
ment but intention and wise discrimination? And 
this is obtained only in His kingdom, at His table. You 
remember where Christ said, " I have meat and drink 
that ye know not of." And again, " Settle it, there- 
fore, in your hearts, not to meditate before what ye 
shall answer [that is, do not manufacture in thought], 
for I will give you a mouth and wisdom which all 
your adversaries will not be able to gainsay nor re- 
sist." For the kingdom of God is in power. " If any 
man lack wisdom let him intend his will to God, 

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that giveth liberally to all who ask without wavering 
— " That is, the whole will concentrated within the 
veil of the temple. In every case where Christ healed 
the sick, gave sight to the blind, made the lame to 
walk and the deaf hear. He said first to them, "What 
is thy will?" What wilt thou have me to do? And 
because the whole self, the whole will, was intent, was 
subjective, was centered within the kingdom or power 
of Christ. 

The answer came, the immediate result was restora- 
tion, a fulfilling of the will, therefore, a growth and 
development of will. " All that the Father giveth me 
shall come to me, and him that cometh to me, I will, 
in no wise cast out" " And this is the will of the 
Father, that every one that believeth on the Son may 
have everlasting life and, I will raise him up at the 
last day." " Seek ye first the kingdom of God and all 
else shall be added unto you, for it is your Father's 
good pleasure to give you the kingdom." 

We, as will, must seek, must direct toward the holy 
of holies. This is the first requirement of will — we 
must enter into communion, to receive food from the 
kingdom; then we accept or choose it and this is the 
second place of will. Finally, we co-operate or do His 
will. We have individually put this personal will into 
action and have then done the will of the Father. 
" Except ye do my will, ye have no inheritance of 
eternal life." This do, and ye shall live. '' My 
mother and my brethren are these which hear the 
word of God and do it." 

Where do we hear the word or will of God? From 
the teacher, the pulpit, the Bible? Yes, indirectly; 
but primarily we hear it within the temple of God, 
where God indeed dwells, and that is within every 
will-power to enter into — within the immediate reach 

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of each co-operative will. Not my will as separated 
from Thine, but my will as operated by and co-oper- 
ative with Thy will, oh, my Father. Henley has most 
beautifully said : 

" It matters not how straight the gate, 

How charged with punishment the scroll ; 
I am the master of my fate. 
I am the captain of my soul." 

I as will, my will, is the master of my fate. My will 
is the captain, the motorman, the creator of my soul. 
The machinery or loom of life weaves the fabric of 
soul, as Mary Vaughan has so beautifully expressed it: 



" In the loom of life we weave each day 
On the warp of circumstance 
The colors grave, and the colors gay. 
However the threads may chance. 

" But the web is ours to make or mar, 
And the pattern we may choose; 
We may make the fabric strong and fair 
And blend as we will, the hues. 

" The glint of gold from our happy days, 
May shine through the sombre shades 
And love's warm gleams like the morning rays 
Add beauty that never fades. 

" When the Master Workman judges at last. 
May He find our weaving good, 
The texture fine and the colors fast, 
And His purpose understood." 



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This is one of the most perfect pictures of the true 
action of will, with its color scheme so perfectly 
blended — will drawn upon a canvas, as it were, we 
may choose the pattern, we may weave as we please; 
in this choice, in this individuality, we see the Father- 
hood of God; but to make the fabric perfect, lasting, 
beautiful and fit for His kingdom through all the 
warp and woof of it, His purpose fnust be understood. 
Think, if you can, of the power within you to make 
or create mothers, sisters, and brothers of Christ. 
He saith, ''Whosoever shall do the will of the Father, 
the same is my mother, and sister, and brother." In 
every act we will find the light of truth ; we will then 
in deed magnify the Lord, not in words, for that is 
lip service; but magnify Him in deeds, in creations, 
in souls, that He will gather as jewels for His king- 
dom. 

The action of will in its three-fold power giveth us 
mastery, possession, power to surmount, to rise or fall. 
Concentrate the self upon any point until choice is 
made and activity put upon that choice, then you 
have mastered ; all things are yours in this mastery — 
your will has gained the victory. By my will I can 
possess heaven or hell. I can be heaven or hell. I 
can create heaven or hell. All depends upon my 
choice, upon the determination of the self as will. 
Not the self determination of soul, but will ; choice 
is an act of will, not soul. This, then, is the one 
point of departure for education, for educational psy- 
chology, and for theology, as applied to the education 
of man. So soon as the child finds the I, so soon as 
he recognizes himself as an individual entity, then 
for him his education or self-evolution begins. We 
can prepare the way before him. We can be as St. 
John, as a voice crying in the wilderness, "Prepare 

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ye the way of the Lord," or we can be workers of 
iniquity, creating an easy path for his choice to fall 
upon. 

When the little child first finds himself as will, that 
self knows the good from the evil, it does not have 
to be explained to him, he is fully a conscious entity; 
he has access to two worlds — the world of mind and 
of matter, or the realms of the positive and negative. 
The positive is the good, the negative its opposite. 
After the foundation of the child's life is laid — after 
his conception, birth and first three years — yes, after 
his first twelve months — no one can be his will. He 
may be dominated, coerced into this or that action, 
his will remains in the same condition : the only action 
that is evolutionary must be voluntary. By volun- 
tary action of the arm, eye, any member, it becomes 
stronger in action. So with will; only self-activity 
alone is of any value. 

The office of a teacher is supposed to be that of 
leader — to lead the child, and to instruct him. Christ 
reverses this thought, and says, " A little child shall 
lead them." Much of the leading and instruction is 
perversion, coercion, obstruction, and construction of 
such architecture as we will never find in God's king- 
dom. We are told by many of our psychologists of 
sense that " the child is led, but man is a leader." 
True, but the child that is led will not lead himself. 

Can we, dare we, say, " I believe in God the Father 
Almighty, and in Jesus Christ His Son, and in the 
Holy Ghost, the Lord and giver of life," and also con- 
fess and accept what is printed in many of our text- 
books, that the child is largely a thing of sense until 
the teacher makes him a thing of self? Man, then, is 
the life-giver of will ? Ah, no, the psychology of Christ 
gives an entirely different version. " The little child 

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is greatest in the kingdom." The unperverted, un- 
spoiled child is greatest in the possession of the king- 
dom of heaven. He draws his life, his food, his inner 
or will sight from heaven itself. " Yes," you say, " but 
the teacher and preacher can instil into the child high 
ideals." Never! to be an ideal for him it must be 
created by him; that is, it must be born of his will, 
otherwise, it is only an idea. 

By education of choice is meant the development of 
the power of will discrimination ; to separate this from 
that, to fix upon and make its own, what will has 
placed itself into or upon as attention, or intention. 
This repeated self-discrimination is recognized as self- 
control, self-mastery (mastery by self), decision, posi- 
tivity. The will, cultured by choice, becomes more 
and more active, and this activity builds character, is 
the character-growing process. Self as will or will 
as self has for its servants the entire mechanism of the 
body, which includes brain and the marvelous neuro- 
logical system, as well as command of that which is 
beyond the veil of the flesh and material universe. 
" In all thy getting, get wisdom." If the will utilized 
only the body, and that which is material for its deter- 
minations or discriminating choices, it would then get 
only knowledge; but to compare, analyze, to weigh 
and unify the material with the spiritual will bring 
the wisdom which nothing can gainsay. 

Self-determination in the light of reason alone will 
never bring wisdom. Subject feeling to reason and 
the kingdom of heaven is lost. This is what is done 
ninety-nine times out of every hundred to the little 
child, by arbitrary rule, adult interference, corporal 
punishment, discipline (laws enforced by others), and 
school regime. 

Who then shall determine? Each individual will. 

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We confess this necessity every time the will of each 
individual utters the psychologic clause of the Lord's 
prayer. " Thy kingdom come." We say it, confess it 
with the lips, but will it not; and unless we will it, 
we do not believe it. So called faith without works 
is dead. We must choose that which is the kingdom 
of Christ and of God. Choose, and act upon it, other- 
wise there is death. Our wills are of the earth, 
earthy. Wrapped in materialism is our talent, hid- 
den away from the light of truth, inactive in the true 
sense in the abundant life, the life that Christ came 
to give, to teach and to live. 

Some of our teachers tell us that, before choice is 
cultured in the child, he is hesitating, vacillating, un- 
reliable. What has made the child such a seedling of 
criminality? For such he must be, if all these weeds 
have grown in the place where truth, beauty, and 
goodness should shine forth, perpetuating the lie from 
year to year, from generation to generation ; Christians 
in word, but not in deed and in truth. 

The conclusion is that education of the will makes 
for truth and righteousness. Non-education of each 
seed of God, each talent given to the world, each ex- 
pression of the Father, each individual and personal 
will not unfolded in true unity — these make for sin. 

Is there sin in the world? Is there evidence all 
about us that Christ is risen, in each heart of man? 
Does the culture of reason — or will by reason — make 
Christ in evidence everywhere? The growth of 
choice makes character, but what quality of character? 
Choice can be , grown on the physical and material 
plane alone, and this grows characters, such as we 
find the reflex of in prisons, almshouses, insane 
asylums, in cheats, thieves, liars, misers, and every 

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phase of darkness that is glaring at us from society 
and the world of business. 

What other than this culture of will was practised 
by the money changer in the Temple whom Christ 
drove out with whip-cords? Such wills cannot even 
enter the kingdom. " Not every one that saith unto 
me Lord, Lord, shall enter the kingdom of heaven — 
but, he that doeth the will of my Father which is in 
heaven." Professor Baldwin tells us that purposes 
reach into eternity. Christ says, " Acts alone reach 
into the eternal, except ye do the will." To purpose 
is to attend ; much of will rests in the attention or in- 
tention, and is never determined upon and put into 
action ; and the purposes thus acted upon make for 
character up or down,, for the rise or fall of the soul. 

Christ's mission upon earth was to show by living, 
by action, by example, the education of will in truth 
and light; and in leaving the physical presence of 
men to send the Holy Ghost, the Comforter, to all 
who believed in truth, that is, to all who entered into 
action with His life ; and them He would draw unto 
Himself, " that where he was, there they should be 
also." Two thousand years since this psychologic 
truth was given to the world ; and to-day the para- 
mount thought and understanding of education is the 
culture of the intellect or development of brain power, 
and the accumulation of knowledge. 

The cry goes forth to-day as it was wrung from the 
lips of Christ so long ago. " O Jerusalem, Jerusalem, 
how oft would I have gathered thy children together 
as a hen gathereth her chickens under her wings, but 
ye would not!" Let us begin again — be born again. 
Christ said, " Ye must be born again, born of the 
spirit, becoming in will as a little child who is not per- 

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verted." A true child of the kingdom entering into 
the holy of holies, with all intention; choosing and 
assimilating from that world the things of self and 
acting upon such determination. We will then mag- 
nify the Lord ; we will increase the talent an hundred- 
fold; we will keep in action the Commandments. We 
will pray the Lord's prayer; we will be wise; we 
will live and have the abundant life; and we will 
begin to know what self as soul will be, because we 
know what self as will is — the Divine inheritance, the 
gift from and of God the Father. The talent for our 
use. The means of communion with heaven. This 
is self as will and will as self. 



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CONSCIBNCB AS DBVULOPBD BY WILL. 

"Much more shall not we escape, if we turn away 
from Him that speaketh from heaven." The still small 
voice that is commonly called conscience — where is it 
heard; and what is it? Are the oft repeated ques- 
tions that come to us from generation to generation. 
In the first place, we must acknowledge that con- 
science is a presence apart from the individual self. 
In the early days of infancy, it is recognized as a voice 
within the self. If apart from the self, yet within the 
self, how then is it communicated if not by wave 
sounds through the ear ? To what is it communicated 
and what of self hears or recognizes it, and what is 
conscience? It is the voice of God communicated to 
His seed or divine heir to become the will of man, 
through and by the emotions. God speaks to the will 
of His child as a natural father addresses the ear of 
his son. "He that hath ears to hear, let him hear." 
Have we all the same spiritual ears? Do we all hear 
continually the voice of God? Is conscience ever 
active, or does it come and go like flashes of lightning? 
To some, it is an ever abiding presence and can ever 
be acted upon by will, because the will has never 
turned away from Him that speaks; but again we 
find many who are tossed about hither and yon, with 

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no anchor, no monitor to direct the choice, or guide 
the action, because again and again they have turned 
away and made choice upon that which was opposed 
to the voice within, until the incHnation, the attention 
is bent as a twig from the true course, growing away 
from the power to hear the truth of the inner voice. 

Although the will makes other choice and refuses 
to act upon God's law, yet it is within his will power 
to receive at any time the divine message. " I will 
never leave thee nor forsake thee; lo, I am with you 
always, even unto the end." God is ever ready to 
counsel his children, to communicate Himself to them, 
to give them wisdom. Can we doubt that Samuel, 
child as he was, heard the voice of God, when all his 
will was concentrated upon conscience? " Speak, Lord, 
for Thy servant heareth." 

If conscience is the voice of God, can we develop it? 
No ; but we can so direct will as to develop in us the 
power to discern conscience; the power to distinguish 
God's voice, above the clamor and voice of thought 
machinery, above contending emotions, above the voice 
of the spirit of evil, for it is the ear of will that Satan 
attacks. Then, too, the physical is played upon by 
so many thousands of voices, that the brain is com- 
municating to consciousness such varied messages 
that it is easy to accept the blending of outer notes 
for the leading voice, and exert no will beyond this 
acceptance— to be content with the outward. 

In this sense it is impossible to develop the self- 
conscience, that is, develop the will to conscience ; that 
will may be grown by conscience. 

The only way we can develop God's voice is by 
expressing conscience — putting it forth in activity 
from the self, by the servants and tools of self. Will 
must keep the avenues of conscience open, clear, clean 

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and unobstructed, free from the noise of thought 
machinery. Open and unobstructed by products of 
our own manufactory, clean of the debris of evil sug- 
gestion. It must separate itself from the press of all 
outward activity and go into the silence; empty the 
entire self of sense impressions, go apart as it were 
from the press, as Christ did, and place self or will in 
the presence of God. " Be still then, and know that I 
am God." 

Only in this stillness, in the silence of the sanctuary, 
when will is projected beyond the body, out |into what 
is termed the world of necessary realities, that God 
speaks to man, we must go forth to meet His will, or 
we will not hear His voice. " To-day, if ye will, hear 
my voice." Imagination, the gift of prophecy, seeing 
visions, interpretations of dreams, the sixth sense, fore- 
knowledge of future events. All these are synony- 
mous and the result of a developed and clear will- 
path to conscience. A placing of the self in the atti- 
tude of a listener, this will develop the power to listen 
and to hear. " Him that cometh to me I will in no 
wise cast out." Christ said : " I can of mine own self 
do nothing, as I hear I judge, and my judgment is 
just because I seek not mine own will, but the will 
of the Father, which hath sent me." This is the 
destiny of man, to bear witness of the truth. " I came 
not to do mine own will, but the will of Him that sent 
me." This is the psychologic life, the life of the soul 
made by the attitude of will to conscience. " The 
sheep hear his voice, and the shepherd calleth his own 
sheep by name, and leadeth them out" — out from the 
sheep-fold, into the world, to lead the abundant Hfe 
that the following of the shepherd voice will give. 
" My sheep hear my voice and follow me." 

Imagination is generally defined as the power to 

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create ideals. Ideals are really the reals or truth. 
Does man then create truth ? All progress comes 
indeed from the effort of self to realize truth, but 
there is only one way by which we can image truth, 
and that is through conscience. 

Educate imagination is the mandate of our text- 
books. How Siidii we gain this master power to 
image or see the ideal or the truth? Some guides tell 
us to exercise the memory, because memory from 
stores of experiences supplies the material for imagin- 
ation. Will contributes purpose to conscience, and 
conscience supplies the truth which is the ideal; and 
again, will supplies action and images or pictures the 
ideal — reproduces by action the real or (more correctly 
stated) represents the picture according to the concen- 
tration of will to conscience. 

Disassociated and recombined experiences will never 
create anything but a new idea. This is the power 
of thought, the manufactured product of brain activity, 
that is, will concentration upon accumulated exper- 
iences. Notions of things and their relations. In 
practical life, in art, in literature, the term imagina- 
tion stands for invention — not creation. Invention is 
discovery, as this one and this one combined will pro- 
duce a third condition or position, to frame or fashion. 
All that is practical, material, tangible is invented. 
The will of man cannot call into being, into life, that 
which is, or has been lifeless ; therefore, the term 
imagination is misapplied when it is used to stand for 
creation. There is only one thing that the will of 
man can create, and that is done entirely by the atti- 
tude to conscience or from conscience. 

The gift of prophesy is the voice of conscience 
speaking through the will of man. Interpretation of 
dreams, the sixth sense, foreknowledge of future 

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events, all these are not practical every-day occur- 
rences. They have no place in psychology, or applied 
psychology; no part in the study of self. These are 
developments that belong to members of the psychical 
research society, such will be the objections made, 
and is the excuse of thousands who have hardened 
their hearts, who have willingly turned away from the 
voice of God, who have so clogged the ear and closed 
the door to all avenues of the ideal, to all real hearing 
of the truth, to all self-betterment, that to them indeed 
such reals are as a sealed book, an unknown, un- 
familiar life. Psychic phenomena, sixth sense, what 
are they but the close following of conscience by self 
— a clear conscience, a conscience void of offense, a 
conscience that has not been offended by the will. 
These are open to receive commands, instruction, 
blessings and power, sight and insight into the pictures 
presented by the word of God. There are many 
specific laws laid down for training the child's con- 
science, as systematic plans of instruction by teachers 
and parents. It is known as a moral faculty, there- 
fore, placing before the child moral instruction will 
educate the conscience. Telling him that this or that 
is right, he must follow this lead, or give blind 
obedience to another's command, to coerce him to 
this or that action, will eventually give him a high 
moral standard, and thereby cultivate his conscience. 
As stated before, " A child is considered a thing of 
sense until the adult creates in him a self." Con- 
science acts so feebly with the child that man must 
teach him how to educate and cultivate it! Isn't it 
darkness indeed? Isn't it sacrilege and heathenish? 
Isn't such conception in direct opposition to the truth 
of Christ's psychology? Where did Christ, as a Httle 
child, receive the wisdom, the power of prophecy, the 

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fore-knowledge of events, the truth of the law that 
the learned men of the time knew not of — His duty 
and life-work, His onward action in spite of the 
Mother Mary's questions (pure and holy as she was) 
— where did it all come from but from His conscience, 
the inner voice of the Father? Self-control is the 
safety valve of self as will ; the controlling of attention 
of the still, small voice. 

Still, Small Voice. If God is the great Creator of 
all, if He is the All-power, the Maker of worlds, why 
is His voice so still, so small? It has always been so 
recognized by the masses. There are a few excep- 
tions on record — of children, men and women — to 
whom it was not still and small, but a very Mighty 
Voice — a Voice that over-balanced every other voice ; 
one that could not be mistaken or misunderstood : it 
was, to them, without question, the Voice of Almighty 
God. Were these few especially favored, particularly 
blessed, and called upon to hear what was and is with- 
held from the majority of men? God forbid that we 
should find Him an unjust God! The Parable of the 
Laborers in the Vineyard will answer this question 
for us. When they were dissatisfied with that which 
was given to them in return for their labor, the Lord 
of the Vineyard said, " Take that thine is, and go thy 
way." 

They received exactly in proportion to their effort, 
to the will or self which was in the labor. Just so is 
it with our ability to hear the conscience voice. In 
proportion to the attention do we hear. 

All material things are symbols of the real or 
spiritual. A clock may strike or a bell ring with 
tremendous power close to the physical or outer ear 
of the body ; but if the attention of will is not given to 
it, we will hear no sound whatsoever. Therefore, we 

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are responsible for our conscience, whether it be great 
or small. " To him that hath, shall be given." " I 
will arise and go to my Father." Duty emotions must 
spring from conscience culture, as love, honor, respect 
are developed from the cultivation of friendship ; to 
cultivate your friend is to learn to know^ him. Duty 
can not grow one to a fuller conception of conscience. 
To do this or that act because it is given by parent or 
teacher as a law that should be followed will never 
make us hear the voice of conscience more clearly, but 
to do right, to act truth, to love beauty because you 
cannot do anything else, because your will responds 
to that which comes by conscience, will cultivate con- 
science; will grow that will closer and closer to the 
Divine Voice, and make it your own — one with His 
voice. 

So soon as voluntary acts are made by the child, 
he should be guided by example, repose, and self- 
government to be constantly on the watch, constantly 
attentive to the law of right within himself — not what 
he wills to do, but what is right to do. 

Simply to have this question placed by the self is 
the attitude of attention to the Lawgiver of right ; and 
the tiniest child finds the law more readily because 
Christ said, " In heaven their angels do always behold 
the face of the Father." This, and this alone, will 
formulate the attitude of right doing; this, and this 
alone, is the development of will to conscience and the 
enlargement or expansion of our hearing of conscience. 

Christ says, " Do thus and so for conscience's sake ;'* 
it would have been the same if He had said, " For 
God's sake." 

We have a world full of degraded human beings 
because children are forced away from obedience to 
conscience, and compelled to listen to the confusing 

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voices and laws of man. Almost from the hour of a 
child's birth, until the years of manhood are reached, 
there is forced upon him a perfect babel of confusing 
sounds, conflicting voices, injunctions, prescriptions, 
commands, and threats; — no periods for repose, inner 
collectedness, poise, and self-adjustment — except in 
sleep ; no holy communions of the mother and babe 
in the presence of God. The nearest approach is in 
the form of a prayer, which is usually a request or 
dictation as to what God shall do for the child. 

Real Communion is by the will of the mother, pre- 
senting her child as^ will — to the loving guidance of 
God's voice. The failure to do this is the cause of 
so much drifting — " So many called, but few chosen." 
Morality and religion are the third and fourth consid- 
erations in the education of man ; the last phases of a 
child's being to be provided for. 

When a child is conceived, born into the world and 
reared up to the sixth year, the one dominating 
thought, provision, and expenditure is for the physical 
welfare; every effort is made to keep the child phy- 
sically alive. 

After the sixth year, intellectual growth is fostered 
as it is generally expressed, " The mind must be 
educated," and he is provided with instructors, text- 
books — in short, all material objects that will develop 
him mentaUy. And he is talked to, read to, preached 
at, drilled and led through innumerable subjects until 
he approaches the adolescent period, when life begins 
to assert new causes for being. Then we say the 
time has come for moral law,— moral instruction to 
be laid before the youth, that he may imbibe the 
examples of moral scribes, and become a moral man. 
After this period, of golden implanting, he may desire 
to become a Christian; he may be religious, or at 

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least interested in religion, for he has ''come to years 
of discretion." 

Poor, bhnd leaders of the blind ! " When will ye 
come to appear before the presence of God? " ''When 
once the Master of the house is risen up, and hath 
shut to the door, and ye begin to stand without, and 
to knock at the door, saying, " Lord, Lord, open unto 
us ? " and He shall answer and say, " I know you not, 
whence ye are; depart from me, all ye workers of 
iniquity/' 

Then shall there be weeping and gnashing of teeth, 
when ye see yourselves thrust out, shut out from the 
kingdom of God ; — all the spring-time of your proba- 
tion misdirected and misdirecting; opportunity for 
conscience-activity, lost, and stray sheep out of the 
sheep-fold, the result. 

Moral judgments are not products of the intellect — 
rather discrimination or choice of will, which has been 
attentive to conscience. Ethical infants are those who 
have been hindered and forbidden to listen to the inner 
voice. 

We use the term "inner voice," because it is not ap- 
parent, not observed, by the outward or physical — not 
tangible. All that , which relates to, or goes to make 
the self as distinctive from body, is supposed to be 
inner, not seen by the outer. It would be more nearly 
correct to say, "upper voice." Edwin Arnold so ex- 
presses it in " The Mystery of Death" : 
" I listen as deep as to horrible hell, 
As high as to heaven : but you do not tell." 

There is no such thing as bad conscience. We often 
hear the expression, "good conscience or bad con- 
science." What is meant by bad conscience is the 
attitude of will away from conscience, in the opposite 
direction of good; following the self-will, or will of 

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another, as opposed to the higher voice that calls. It 
is easy to understand that conscience is not the self- 
feeling of this or that duty-emotion; but that duty- 
emotion is the result of the attention of self or attitude 
of self to conscience. 

It is impossible for the individual to build or create 
a conscience, yet some of our pedagogues have so in- 
structed us. Joseph Cook has wisely said, " Whoso- 
ever attempts to tutor conscience, tutors a personal 
God. This is Christ's psychology. 

Like memory and reason, conscience becomes ap- 
parent, and known by use; every time we act in accord 
with the dictates of conscience, we increase ethical 
emotion ; and the joy of work well done inspires us to 
again obey the same Commander: so by contact we 
increase the vigor and zeal of our ethical emotions and 
live on a higher moral plane. Obeying these impulses 
shortens the distance between self and God, and makes 
the voice of conscience clearer, stronger, nearer, so 
that w^e are educated to conscience, but we do not or 
can not educate conscience. I am in touch with 
the Infinite Will. How? By contact of my will 
with conscience, because Christ said, " And they shall 
all be taught of God." " Every man, therefore, that 
hath heard, and hath learned of the Father cometh 
unto me." Yet he also said, " No man hath seen the 
Father, but the Son," which distinctly tells us that, 
while we are not developed so as to see the Father, 
we may hear Him if we will. We may, if we willy 
so hear His voice, so receive His commands and do 
them, as to magnify and glorify God. When Paul 
persecuted the Christians to death, he said he did it 
in good conscience, for he felt that he ought to do it. 
He made a mistake, or the interpretation of Paul's 
reason is a mistake : he did it consciously, because he 

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was conscious of his will — determining to do it; but 
when God spoke to him, he ceased his persecutions 
and changed his whole course of action, working in 
harmony with the Will of God. Then, and only then, 
did he act conscientiously — by the direction of con- 
science. Conscience, rightly apprehended and acted 
upon, grows more and more the master man, the 
moral man — the man that overcometh the lower spir- 
its, grows more and more the man of God. 

A man is educated morally when conscience domin- 
ates his life; when conscience is his lawgiver and his 
law. Christian ethics is the only safe ethical law; 
Christian Science the only psychology that builds for 
eternity: that is, to have a knowledge of Christ by 
being directed by the same law or voice which gave 
to Christ His law of life, and with which His will co- 
operated. To know the voice of the Father, to follow 
His commands, to do His will, is to know Christ ; to 
have the science of Christ; to follow His steps, to be 
one with the Father's will, is to be the brother of 
Christ. And there is no other door, no other way, by 
which we may enter into the life of Christ, by which 
we may know Christ, but by the same way that shows 
us ourselves, or self-study, is by presenting our- 
selves as will to conscience, and as we present, that is, 
as much as we present we hear; as we hear, so we 
measure ourselves in proportion to that which we 
receive through that door or gateway of communica- 
tion. 

To study ourselves, then, is to measure our acts of 
will and not restudy again and again, physiology, or 
the outward acts cf body and the connection and re- 
lation of that tangible material self with all other 
tangible material, physical bodies; and then believe 
that at the last, we may cry to God with the voice 

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physical, and we shall be transformed from physical 
to spiritual beings, and led into the Celestial City, 
there to abide in truth, beauty, and goodness — as this 
little poem expresses : 

"And when adown the Western sky 
The firey sunset lingers, 
Heaven's gate swings open noiselessly, 
Unlocked hy unseen fingers. 

"And as they stand a moment half -a- jar, 
Gleams from the inner glory. 
From the Azure Vault afar 
And half reveal their story. 

"O land unknown, O land of light divine. 
Father, All-wise, Eternal! 
Guide, guide, these wandering way-worn 
Feet of mine into those pastures vernal." 

Ah, hov^ easy it is to ask and expect God to do it 
all ! He will guide, but we must act. He will lead, 
but we must follow the lead, and then along the way it 
will not be a land "unknown" to which we go and 
are going. Ours, will not be wandering feet, for con- 
science has been our search-light, keeping our feet in 
the true path. They will not be **unseen fingers" 
that unlock the gate to those pastures vernal; they 
will be unlocked by our own self-effort. Conscience 
dominates our actions, because we attend to con- 
science, and choose to make that the law by which we 
act. If we will to accept conscience as our leader and 
guide, we so act through things temporal that we lose 
not the things eternal ; we so draw near to God that 
He draws near to us, and we hear that which others 
who have not cultured will can not hear. We hear 

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so clearly that we image what we hear, therefore, see 
beyond the physical, and know that God has been, 
and is, with us. This is termed "sixth sense," or psy- 
chic power. It is the result of what Christ called 
"Good will doing service." When we have so cultured 
self that God's voice is our only law, we shall be able 
to say, with Christ, " I must be about my Father's 
business" and then shall we be able to do even greater 
things than He did : as He hath told us, God working 
in us. " I can do all things through the power of 
Christ, which strengtheneth me." 

" I must be about my Father's business," will be 
our life-work when the voice of the Father confides 
to our ready wills His business. 



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CHAPTER III. 



SOUL— WHAT IT IS, AND HOW KNOWN 
OR RBCOGNIZBD. 

Know Self: Psychology is the science of self (psy- 
chology — soul science). This knowledge underlies 
and makes possible the science of education, the science 
of soul development; yet what the soul really is, is 
classed with the unknown, or defined as spirit without 
any definite idea of what spirit is, apart from the 
word self, which is so vague, so generally mixed with 
all the physiological processes that soul-self is 
shrouded in darkness. We climb a physiological 
ladder from sense perception through all body pro- 
cesses to reason, and flatter ourselves that we are 
studying soul, culturing soul, knowing soul. 

Elihu Vedder has painted a marvelous picture rep- 
resenting the meeting of two souls in the Spirit World. 
One asks the other, "Who are you?" The reply is, 
" I do not know ; I only died last night." So long as 
we hold reason to be the crown of the cognitive pyra- 
mid of self, we shall be forced to answer the questions, 
"Who or what are you?" in the same way, "I do 
not know." 

My sensorium and motorium give me direct con- 
nection with the universe; and through and by this 
connection soul is generated in the body, by the body, 
and through the body. I must comprehend it, if I 

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would study soul, or make a psychology. If such 
knowledge is too wonderful for me, too high and deep, 
then why is this sensorium and motorium used for 
the purpose of generating that which is unknowable? 
When we acknowledge this science to be beyond our 
knowing, we are building continually altars to the un- 
known God, and we say the germ-self becomes the 
man-self. Life covers a period of years from birth 
until death. Psychology is, then, only a science of 
the evolution of man — not the evolution of soul ; and 
character is the art of manhood, not the cipher of the 
soul. Educational psychology is, according to this 
light, only a mechanical science — a study of the mach- 
inery that is used for the purpose of generating soul; 
but knows its product no more than the type-writer 
comprehends the message printed upon the page. 

Froebel tells us that the infant soul is made up of 
germ-faculties which education develops. Evolution, 
a leading out, by the activities grows the soul; but 
not a material soul, as Herbert Spencer finds it. Edu- 
cation is soul-evolution. Plato, Agassiz, and Horace 
Mann have been our teachers ; but Christ is the great 
high-priest of psychology or soul-science. Christ tells 
us how we can make this physical organism an ally — 
how it may be made the fittest instrument of soul, and 
how the sensorium and motorium receive messages 
from mind-world as well as matter-world, and sends 
them out again, in either direction, with the signet of 
soul upon them. The cerebro-spinal system has direct 
connection with the organic sense-organs, and with 
the magnetisms of the mind-world. Did Christ, in 
all His wonderful lessons, evef tell us anything about 
the mind of Satan? No, but He has told much of the 
spirit of that evil one. Self-intuition is direct soul- 
sight into mind-world. Why, then, do we not know 

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soul? It is clear that perception is not soul-intuition; 
self-perception is perceiving the will. Soul-intuition is 
altogether different; one is cause, the other effect. 
Conscious personality is one thing, conscious individ- 
uality distinctly another perception. Conscious per- 
sonality is proof of soul-evolution — an eternal develop- 
ing process, immortality, — an endless life. Soul-study, 
the science of soul, the evolution or education of soul, 
does not aim at perfect manhood; for manhood cul- 
minates physical evolution, and soul-evolution is not 
physical. 

I (will) am conscious of building a character; in 
other words (meaning the same thing), I (will) am 
conscious, through intuition as well as through my 
sensorium, of building a soul. I know that I am doing 
it, if I am a student of myself as will ; if I am a self- 
determining individual. I know how I am doing it, 
how I am building soul, where I am building it, where 
the /, quarries material for it, and what the soul is. 

While awareness occurs in connection with the cere- 
bral hemispheres, the animal, though capable of reflex 
(physical) action, gives no indication of conscious- 
ness ; yet every attempt to connect consciousness with 
special ganglia of the brain has proved an utter fail- 
ure, and will prove a failure so long as awareness and 
consciousness are connected with the sensorium from 
the without-world alone, and no connection made be- 
tween the sensorium and the mind-world or the with- 
in. Here the door is closed on the medical student, 
on the materialistic scientific student, and also closed 
to the theological student who studies theology in the 
light of sense psychology. 

Soul is as distinctively soul as eye is eye, or brain 
is brain. We would not think of confounding hand 
with tooth ; yet these are perishable, temporal, vanish- 

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ing possessions — instruments for our temporary use. 
Then why do we call self-soul, and soul mind, and 
soul-spirit, and mind a conscious self-entity? We also 
class mind with matter, and call them both noumena, 
and not phenomena. And self-perceiving is gaining 
soul-emotions : then why do we not know more of 
soul — if soul is the self, the actor in life's drama? 

In proportion as we evolve soul by mind, do we 
magnify the Lord : " My soul doth magnify the Lord." 

The culture of soul consciousness opens to us the 
everlasting door of heaven. The evolution of soul 
that is not by mind, but by intellect, opens the gates 
of hell : " By their fruits ye shall know them." 

" Beloved, now are we sons of God, and it doth not 
yet appear what we shall be, but we know that when 
He shall appear, we shall be like Him for we shall 
see Him as He is.'' If we continually build up our- 
selves by praying in the Holy Ghost ; living in action 
with God, in building self or soul in the keeping of 
the Father, and it doth not yet appear what that build- 
ing will be, but while we build we know what mater- 
ial is being put into the structure— whether it be that 
which will stand or fall. We know where it is being 
built, because of our choice ; but just how it shall ap- 
pear is not yet known, because it is in process of con- 
struction. " A house not made with hands — eternal 
in the heavens." Christ was a Builder and Architect, 
and we are builders, architects of our own souls; we 
plan them by our choice, and build them by our 
actions. The oak is generated in the acorn, and when 
it is oak, it is no longer acorn, nor in the acorn ; and 
as oak it has not the appearance of the acorn ; nor does 
the oak look like oak while in the germ, or even in 
process of germination, although all the possibiHties 
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from — away from — above. It starts from a sound, 
well-formed, beautiful body (the acorn) ; is put forth 
little by little, growing larger and more perfect, yet 
more unlike its source, and continues to be built until 
finally all connection with the little house, (acorn- 
home) or workshop is severed, and the shell or used- 
up generator is cast back upon the earth, and the oak 
has been grown by addition until it has lost all sem- 
blance of the seedling — and spreads its branches far 
and wide, absorbing from, and radiating to, the atmos- 
phere (in which it finds itself). All beauty and purity 
and life. 

The child, as will, gains experimental knowledge of 
mind-world at the same time that it gains experi- 
mental knowledge of matter-world. The child's first 
smile to its mother, the first love expression proves 
this conclusively. And we know that we have such 
evidences very early in the child-life-world; we say, 
because the acorn is small, that it is impossible for it 
to immediately put forth the oak. We must grow the 
acorn into a larger body first, or we must hold it as 
acorn for several years before it has power to become 
an oak. Can we deny that it assimilated all the pro- 
perties and possibilities of the oak, even while it was 
becoming a separate and distinctive acorn. What, 
then, of the child? And why is self-intuition left out 
of count until the period of youth? This is very like 
the darkness of atomism. The period for self-culture 
and soul-build is the period of early childhood ; this is 
the golden period for the study of self and the culture 
of soul. 

" It is impossible but that offenses will come ; but 
woe unto him through whom the oflFense cometh! It 
were better for him that a mill-stone were cast about 
his neck, and he cast into the sea, than that he should 

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offend one of these little ones." Remember, they were 
infants whom Christ blessed and said, " Allow them 
to come unto me and forbid them not." He also 
affirmed that the little child receives the kingdom of 
God, for He warned us that whosoever shall not re- 
ceive it as a little child shall in nowise, enter therein." 
Can we have stronger proof that in the tiny child- 
seed, as well as any natural seed, is all power 
to become? We dare not assert that the child 
must first gain experimental knowledge of matter- 
world before it can have any awareness or 
culture of the self, or soul. " Little children, it is 
your Father's good pleasure to give you the kingdom." 
If soul-growth is not hindered, hampered, and looked 
upon as an abnormal condition and even stopped, by 
adults, we will soon have a generation of psychologists 
who define soul in every act; who know self better 
than the lineaments of their own bodies; who begin all 
teaching from the spiritual side to reveal and explain 
the material world. And the world will lose sight 
of its degraded human beings : the animal in man will 
be subdued before it has grown to such proportions 
that it takes a life-time to overcome it. 

The reason for so much haziness, second-hand self- 
knowing, is because, at the first indication of true 
communication with mind-world and a genuine effort 
at soul-build, the parents and teachers become alarmed 
and think the child is too subjective, and is developing 
an abnormal condition, which must, of course, be 
quenched — " snuffed out," as the light of a candle, 
and every effort made to keep it from igniting again. 
Can we wonder, then, at the masses who are ignorant 
of what soul-growth means ; who say, " Yes, I believe 
I have a soul; but what it is, or where it is, is more 
than I can comprehend." 

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Apperception — the combination of awareness of all 
that constitutes matter-world, mind-world, and neces- 
sary truths into the production of soul — into an eternal 
product, into that which magnifies or makes greater 
God. This, and this alone, is true self-culture, soul- 
growth ; all else is the making of bad fruit. " Every 
tree, therefore, which bringeth not forth good fruit 
is hewn down and cast into the fire." Herein hes the 
psychologic lesson and great responsibility of parent- 
hood : shall their fruit be unwhole, worm-eaten, half- 
formed fruit, made up of that which has no living 
quality of being — only composed of matter that the 
worm will soon destroy ; fruit that will never have the 
power within it to build a glorious tree ; never build 
anything more beautiful than it brought into this 
world? Of whom it will be said, "Sown a natural 
body, raised a natural body;" only to be counted as 
chaff. Of the soul it is said, " Other foundation can 
no man lay than that which is laid." The soul can 
not be grown or raised one way to-day, then recon- 
structed to-morrow, and made all over again." 

We speak of ideal characters : these are real soul- 
builders, beautiful soul-creators — "Sculptors of life are 
we, with our souls uncarved before us." We are, by 
the activities of will, carving and chiseling, molding 
and fashioning, that heavenly beauty which at the 
last will be revealed to us as our own souls. 

Where is this structure being built? Where is it 
kept while in the process of making? Do I hold it 
within my body? Is it a possession of my mind or 
of my spirit? Does the acorn hold the oak while it is 
growing it in all perfection of a tree? No, it sends 
it forth from itself, by activities — away, apart from 
self into the world of necessary realities ; while, at the 
same time, its source, its root, is a fixture in the earth. 

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So we, by purposed, chosen acts of will, in harmonious 
action with conscience, send out from self that which 
builds soul, act by act, out into space (this is faith), 
into the keeping of God, for His adjustment, His sig- 
net, to be placed upon them ; His glory and light to 
be their light and glory. For hath Christ not said, 
'' In my Father's house are many mansions. If it 
were not so, I would have told you! I go to prepare 
a place for you, that where I am, there ye may be 
also." Mansions of soul-build. Christ knew His 
soul. The perfect communion and co-operation of His 
will with the Father revealed His soul to Him ; for He 
said, '' 1 am the resurrection and the life ; no man 
cometh unto the Father but by me" (but by my life 
He constantly beheld His resurrection : as it was a 
momentary, " I and my Father are one") made it pos- 
sible for Him to know His own soul, so that He could 
see His resurrection — / am already conscious resur- 
rection. Shall our souls be where Clinton Danger- 
field has pictured this one in his "Soul of the Skeptic," 
(Soul in Hades) : 

THE SOUL OF THE SKEPTIC. 
By Clinton DangErfiEIvD. 

They told me that this was all : a tomb and the marble grin 
Of a fatuous cherub half carved, and a coffin to molder in; 
But I look with penetrant eyes on my dead flesh lying in state, 
And it seems to mock me with stifled curled lips and to whisper : 
" You learn too late. 

" I was the thing you set as your absolute Overlord ; 
Now you are loosed and away, while I am of men abhorred; 
Now you are loosed, and yet — ^you are not glad to be free, 
For you colored the cast of your life by this, that you would 
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" The angels' selves must laugh, and the pitiless friends will jeer; 
Yet one or the other you must go face, while I am the sleeper 

here! 
Bravely you lived and loved, secure in the intellect's lie. 
Yielding your soul to a sensuous death, a death that it could 

not die." 

Some one spoke those words! Was it those poor lips of clay, 
The thing I held as my Overlord, from whom I escaped to-day? 
I am sitting alone, alone, and my terror no words can tell; 
For I dare not knock at the Gate I mocked, and I would not 
go to Hell. 

" Behold, the husbandman waiteth for the precious 
fruits of the earth and hath long patience for it." 

We know not the soul, nor whither it goeth : there- 
fore, the husbandman waiteth ! There are many more 
no-soul theorists than confess it, or even are clearly 
aware of it. All who confess ignorance of the soul 
can not possibly be building anything in light, can not 
possibly be self-determining in good; they must be 
drifting aimlessly on the sea of life without compass 
or rudder, or blown hither and thither by tempest- 
tossed captains — leaders, tutors, who know not whence 
they came or whither they go. 

Finding truth is the direct scaffolding for soul-build ; 
whatever calls truth-emotions into full activity will 
build a stone in the soul structure. To simply culti- 
vate truth-emotions, in order to comprehend material 
facts, is of no value. All values must have upon them 
the eternal stamp, or they are satanward bound; they 
are limited, and make for soul-destruction instead of 
soul-resurrection. 

A beautiful soul is a soul of wholeness, soundness ; 
one built of the choice of the true, the good, and the 
beautiful. Our destiny is our life-work in becoming 

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or creating a beautiful soul — a whole soul, a sound 
soul; one that is built in the presence of the Holy 
God. The wisdom of developing a beautiful soul is 
above all art. A beautiful soul is the climax of our 
destiny. But why do we build, or desire to create a 
beautiful, whole soul? That we may receive the re- 
ward of our labor, that we may obtain a crown, that 
we may be saved from punishment, that we may be 
in the pleasantness of light instead of the unhappiness 
of darkness, that we may be conquerors, and rise to 
power, that we may have the honor of being on the 
right-hand of the Throne in heaven, or that we may 
be saved from the horrible burning of hell? No — a 
thousand times, no ! For any one, or all, of these 
motives, for they are the direct builders of unbeautiful 
souls — souls preparing in the presence and under the 
direction of the spirit of evil. But the object and 
destiny, motive and choice for beautiful whole soul- 
building is, and must be, solely for the honor, power, 
majesty, and might of our God. The greatest defect 
in educational motives rests in their limitations. We 
hear educators again and again make the incentive for 
true, good, and beautiful choice and acts, self-better- 
ment, self-superiority, self-ability to enjoy, etc. There 
are hundreds of just such motives for — education, 
while education should have but one purpose. My 
intellect, heart, brain, nerves and will should so blend 
in one aim toward one goal, that there can not pos- 
sibly be what is called "one-sided education." 

Froebel was really the first disciple who saw the 
educational psychology of Christ's life-lessons, and 
applied them exactly where Christ applied them ; there- 
fore, he has been called " the psychologist of child- 
hood." Christ was the first psychologist of childhood ; 
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see the light of truth, for man, in Christ's teaching. 

Intellectual culture divorced from emotion-culture, 
or soul-culture, is what makes many educational 
means, burdens, tasks, stumbling-blocks, and blunders. 
Mathematics are supposed to crush out beauty-emo- 
tions, why? Because the true use and meaning of 
mathematics is entirely lost sight of. All number, 
measurement, proportion, is a symbol of eternity, and, 
as such, it should be understood and utilized. And 
then it would harmonize and make clear every other 
subject. A little boy of four years, who was much 
interested in numbers and in learning to count, would 
ask his father what came next, each time that he had 
added ten to his count; finally, when he had learned 
to build to one hundred, he greatly surprised the 
father by asking the question, " What is the last count, 
father?" The great truth that should come to every 
little child, came in that father's answer, " There is no 
last count, my child." Showing at once the symbol 
of eternal progression, everlasting repetition of the 
one ; one and one — always one added to one or from 
one. One soul added to the One or taken away from 
It. The great power and value of mathematics to 
each individual is the full realization of One. To 
understand perfectly that a unit is one whole, and only 
one ; is all we build for or against ; is to weave mathe- 
matics into the joyous warp and woof of all our fabric, 
which will surely make a cloth of gold with God's 
pattern understood and woven therein, for His use 
and His glory ; and the mightiness of His kingdom 
will be known among men. 

A little girl asked her mother if she knew what a 
soul looked like, and where one can see it. The mother, 
greatly puzzled by the first part of the question, seized 
upon the latter part and replied, " Sometimes you can 

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see the soul in the eyes." The child gazed long and 
earnestly into her mother's eyes, and with a glad 
clap of her little hands, exclaimed : " Now I know 
what a soul looks like ; it looks just like a little child ! " 
Shall we say that the child was deluded or misled? 
The mother's ignorance was her excuse for the answer 
given ; but the little one's search for light, her prayer 
so earnest, her will so centered upon the answer that 
would come, that God used the means at hand — the 
mother's eyes, in which to reflect the child's image, 
and gave the little one her answer in full divine truth 
— in the very words of Christ. If only we would let 
the little child lead us and believe that Christ's word 
is true ! — " A little child shall lead them." Christ 
came as a little child to lead the world, and the divine 
Christ Spirit is in communication with the whole 
child. It would, lead us into the light, it would open 
the ears of our hearts, if we would only not forbid it. 
Next to mothers, kindergartners have greater oppor- 
tunities for light and help in soul architecture than 
any one else — not excepting ministers of the Gospel. 
Study the Scriptures, for in them ye think, ye have 
eternal life." How many ministers do we find study- 
ing the Scriptures and turning away from their chil- 
dren as a great nuisance, disturbance, and hindrance 
to their theological research? How much more light 
they would receive if they would spend hours of every 
day in holy communion with the little child ; not look- 
ing upon it as a plaything of sense, a toy to amuse for 
a little while, and then set apart as a mischief-making 
little animal, banished to the nursery and the nurse, 
but a heaven-sent blessing, to bring light and life and 
love to the home and to the heart of every parent who 
is really looking for the Christ Child. Light, Life, 
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it brings the Christ Child to help us build more beau- 
tiful souls than we could build without Christ. Saint 
John was born filled with the Holy Ghost from his 
mother's womb, to go before the Christ announcing 
His advent, and "to turn the hearts of the fathers to 
their children ; to make ready a people prepared for 
the Lord." To-day, do the parents turn to their chil- 
dren to prepare for the Lord; to build souls for the 
Lord? Nay, rather do they turn away and provoke 
their children to wrath, so that they too turn aside 
from the true path, and gather darkness instead of 
light. And Jesus said to His disciples, " Whosoever 
shall receive this child in my name receiveth me." 
Why will we not heed His voice? 

" Which of you, intending to build a tower, sitteth 
not down first and counteth the cost whether he have 
sufficient to finish it." This is the building without 
the temple of God, the material consideration, the 
thought of commendation, the approval of the world, 
the accumulation and use of that which is material 
build. The tower of the soul counts naught, but 
give; not what I have, but what I do; not what I 
get, but what I give, not what I possess, but how I 
live — as the lily of the field purely and perfectly ex- 
haling its essence; unfolding in perfect harmony and 
purity all its members, rendering unto God the things 
that are God's. The lily is a symbol of the Christ and 
of the little child living its soul straight out in every 
breath, every exhalation : so we can so will to make 
every act a return to heaven every thought an impres- 
sion and reflection of light. 

All our thoughts perish. Let not the same be said 
of our souls. A reflection is only the shadow of a 
thing, and not the thing itself. Thoughts are not, as 

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some have defined them — " things" or reals ; they are 
only adumbrations of the self. To think soul, and to 
know or do soul, are two distinctly different opera- 
tions ; the misconception of thought brings about the 
same results of which Christ spoke when He warned 
the lawyers, the thinking men of the time, — " Woe 
unto you lawyers ! for ye have taken away the key of 
knowledge : ye entered not in yourselves, and them 
that were entering in, ye hindered." " Let him that 
thinketh he standeth, take heed, lest he fall." " Ye 
must be born again," ye must be re-created : soul : ye 
must be born into the kingdom — born of the Spirit by 
the Spirit for the Spiritual life. Christ taught as One 
having authority. He said, " We speak that we do 
know." He never said I think this or this, but I 
know. To know is to be a conscious builder of soul. 
When Christ's ministry was finished, and the last acts 
of His life from the Cross were to be fulfilled, what 
were they? A perfect rounding out and completion 
of His earthly destiny, and the perfecting of the 
corner-stone of the Temple of God. He gave of that 
which He received to Saint John, to the Mother Mary, 
to those who crucified the flesh, and to the thief who 
turned to Him at the eleventh hour: all these borne 
on the wings of spirit to the finishing of that soul 
the glorious corner-stone. And all that was left 
passed on at the very last moment of His earthly 
working experience. The very last finishing touch 
that Christ could put upon His soul was, '* Father, into 
Thy hands I commend — not my soul — but my Spirit." 
That which has worked for Thee, in Thee, and by 
Thy guidance ; that which has lived for Thee and in 
Thee, and that which has died for Thee. 

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already in God's keeping — all of it except the last 
touch that passed from His will to the Will of the 
Father with His last breath. 

What shall my soul be like in the Kingdom of 
God? Will it be a bright, beautiful, large soul? "To- 
day, shalt thou be with me in paradise," Christ 
said to the thief. What kind of soul, compared with 
Christ's soul, will he find his to be? Oh, such a tiny 
speck of light! For one star diifereth from another 
star in glory; and whatsoever a man — (a will), sows 
in heaven or hell, that shall he also reap. What you 
build will remain for you to find ; the product of your 
acts will be great or small, in proportion to the truth 
of the laborj of your will, and you will find the same 
soul you have built, just as God will find it. Then 
shall you know even as you are known; then shall 
you recognize yourself as God recognizes you. You 
have raised up a spiritual temple not made with hands, 
eternal in the heavens or the reverse, A glorious, 
luminous soul, or a tiny speck, just as you have willed 
to make it; for the soul is constantly going out from 
us, bit by bit, act by act, beyond recall. And we 
know where each fibre (spiritual) is being borne ; we 
now know where we shall find it. Let us, then, set 
ourselves to work perfectly in the light of self-deter- 
mination, under guidance of conscience for the now 
and eternal glory of God by our souls. 



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CHAPTER IV. 



SPIRIT AS SBLP'BNBRGY, OR IN 
OPPOSITION TO SOUL. 

Spirit and soul are generally considered synony- 
mous. My soul desires this, or my spirit longs for 
that, my soul passes from my body at death, or my 
spirit has left its earthly tenement. In the preceding 
chapter on soul, we found that it was soul that magni- 
fied the Lord. In this we will see that the, Spirit hath 
rejoiced in God our Saviour. The difference is as 
great as between fire and smoke. When we are con- 
sidering spirit from a human stand-point, we make 
it one with zeal, and thus find many spirits blended 
in one individual ; that is, we take unto ourselves or 
place ourselves to, different spirits in such rapid suc- 
cession that they seem to be blended as one, making 
it a difficult task, as early as the twentieth year of 
life, to separate them one from the other, to distin- 
guish between them, or choose, — which of them to 
reign by will; which makes the crying necessity for 
self-knowledge in the very beginning of our earthly 
career. We hear so many dark, ignorant, misplaced 
excuses for non-self-government — as, " The spirit is 
willing, but the flesh is weak ;" " I don't know why 
I did this or that ;" " I couldn't help it, as though the 
flesh of itself," etc., could act — spontaneously or with 
purpose ! To-day, many murderers are excused on 

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the plea of emotional insanity, because this or that 
spirit dominates will — they have not developed them- 
selves ; but have been possessed by other spirits — 
legions of spirits. " It is the spirit that quickeneth : the 
flesh profiteth nothing." For we wrestle not against 
flesh and blood, but against principalities, against 
powers, against the rulers of darkness of this world, 
against spiritual wickedness in high places (in 
the God-made and God-given will). These are 
the spirits that war against the soul-build; they 
attack the will, the heavenly creation. As they 
attacked Christ and led Him in the Wilderness, 
so we are led in the wilderness until we know 
not ourselves ; we are led by these spirits (in- 
stead of standing as Christ did in the power of the 
Father) — until we reach the years of manhood and 
womanhood and are so confused and blinded by them, 
and are in such darkness about the real self, that we 
are powerless to answer the simplest question in re- 
gard to self or soul ; — in darkness, in the wilderness of 
existence, between heaven and hell ; not knowing 
whither we are tending. Fortification against these 
adverse spirits is the need of every life, and this for- 
tifying of the self must be done by early understanding 
the power of self to prove these spirits before the time 
comes when we heap to ourselves teachers having 
itching ears, and can not endure sound doctrine, we 
will wander after every delusion, not discerning the 
truth or the true spirit. 

Moods, tempers, irritability, desire to lie, cheat, de- 
ceive ; pleasure in inflicting pain, inclination to scoff 
at that which is holy ; loss of poise, regarding the con- 
science as troublesome and inconvenient; inordinate 
affection for anything; eating, drinking, dressing, 
pleasure-seeking; desire for applause, approbation, 
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committed to Him that judgeth righteously is a spirit 
of evil or a spirit of opposition to the spirit of truth. 
lack of poise is the result of lending will to that which 
is for to-day or to-morrow. And who, then, has poise? 
He that is angry hath lost poise ; therefore, he has lent 
himself to an evil spirit, and has lost sight of himself, 
which is a true divine being; for we are sealed unto 
the day of redemption by the Holy Spirit of God, and 
in lending self to adverse spirits we grieve the whole 
Spirit of God. 

The Holy Spirit is the whole spirit, because we 
have access to the Father by one whole spirit, so that 
it is easy to try the spirits, whether they be of God, 
the Spirit of truth whom the world can not receive, 
because it sejeth him not, being in darkness by ad- 
verse spirits — yielding the self up to this or that at- 
traction, sending the will out upon it, and entering 
into union with it, making it one with the self. 

People differ because of the innumerable differences 
of spirit. One person will have one spirit to-day, an- 
other to-morrow, and so on ; these are they who are 
in constant warfare with themselves and others — hard 
to understand and impossible to live together in peace 
and harmony. They believe one thing now, another 
the next minute, and self is a chaos of spirit attrac- 
tions. Not so with the spirit of truth — the Spirit of 
Good. God has one spirit (God the Father). Christ 
has one spirit and the Holy Ghost has one spirit; so, 
too, the self-poised cultured Christians, or children of 
the Kingdom, have one spirit — one zeal, one earnest, 
one purpose for all, action and in all life ; one spirit 
whereby they cry, *' Abba, Father ! " 

If we with the Spirit of truth, search the history 
or recorded life of Christ, we will find how impossible 
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always made spirit distinctive. An effort is being 
made to substitute the word Holy Spirit for Holy 
Ghost, as though one will ever take the place of the 
other. Horrible, indeed, will it be for those who ac- 
cept such a change ! " If any man shall take away 
from the words of the book of will-prophecy, God 
shall take away his part out of the Book of Life and 
out' of the holy city." 

The excuse given for the substitute is, that the word 
Ghost has an unpleasant, uncanny effect upon them. 
These are not they who have received the spirit of 
adoption, and can pray the Lord's Prayer; they may 
say it, but they can not pray it, for the Spirit is not 
discerned. 

A clear elucidation is made in the twenty-seventh 
verse of the eighth chapter of Romans : " And he that 
searcheth the hearts knoweth what is the mind of the 
Spirit, because he maketh intercession for them ac- 
cording to the Will of God. Holy Ghost is the Third 
Person of the Trinity; Spirit is of all three — in all 
three, as certainly as different spirits or currents eman- 
ate from, and are possessed by, human children. We 
can no more say or believe that spirit is Holy Ghost 
than we can accept the statement that soul is body, 
or that water is Hght or sun. There is one sin of the 
children of the kingdom unto death — that is, the sin 
against the Holy Ghost; therefore, let us beware of 
false prophets. If we connect the word impetus with 
spirit as a definition that covers both the spirit of 
the Godhead and all spirits, we will readily under- 
stand the falsity of considering Spirit and Holy Ghost 
synonymous; the very fact of there being evil spirits 
and Satan spirit, proves that the Third Person of the 
Trinity is more than spirit. The Holy Ghost comes 
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as we do acts different in kind (i. e., in spirit). If 
we die for our friends, we die in spirit; if we murder 
an enemy, we murder in spirit. But while spirit is 
the kind or quality of the motive, we do not place 
the condemnation or approbation on the spirit, but 
on the will, which takes this or that spirit as its 
motive as the impetus of the deed. 

When we act from low motives, we make or try to 
excuse ourselves on the plea, that we could not help it, 
because it is our nature, or human nature, so to do. 
Poor wills, deluded by spirits ! lost in the maze of their 
confusing environments or atmospheres. Angels are 
spirits created by God as attractions, men are spirits, 
devils are spirits, the Trinity is spirit, the magnet is 
spirit, electricity is spirit. So we must hold fast the 
spirit of truth, without wavering ; we must forever try 
the spirits, whether they be of God, and what, of all 
that surrounds is the one spirit of unity: what spirit 
harmonizes life with the eternal progress ; what draws 
the self heavenward. If God is the goal for this spirit, 
and Christ the incentive for this spirit and Holy Ghost, 
the understanding of a third motive, then we know 
that we are in the one spirit of truth, which is the spirit 
of unity. This is that testing of spirits which prompts 
the little child's off-repeated questions, " Why is it, 
mama?" "But what for, mama?" This spirit of 
investigation and research is not to solve the problem 
of material environments which surround him, for his 
eye, ear and touch are forever busy doing that — it is 
to blend the spirit of this with the spirit of that. And 
if the mother is wise, (not in her own conceit, for 
then she only thinks she is wise), really wise, the 
child will make the true selections, and use of spirit: 
then will the child grow as did the Christ Child — in 
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— in favor like unto God, like unto man — a Godman, 
a man after Christ, or, as we make it, a Christian. 

The story of the tempest, when Christ and His dis- 
ciples were in the ship, is a most graphic picture of 
the play of spirits over the will of man, in contrast to 
the Spirit of Christ. The marvelous pictures that 
Christ drew in His Parables of life, self, soul, spirit, 
the true psychologic interpretations and revelations 
for man, in which he may easily see himself pictured 
in strong colors. 

It is because we think that the life of Christ was 
one thing, for one purpose, and ours something 
totally different, that we fail to find in His life our 
psychology. 

Christ in a trying hour, said, that if He prayed the 
Father, He would send Him twelve legions of angels. 
Think of it — twelve legions of angels bringing to Him 
the power of the same spirit ! How great would that 
spirit have been. Yet, He did not need to ask, for 
He had all that spirit-life within Himself. When 
Saint Paul made his defense before King Agrippa, 
was it the words which he used that caused the king 
to say unto Paul, " Almost thou persuadest me to 
be a Christian?" No — never! for the word as word 
killeth ; it was the spirit in and behind, before and 
around, the words which met the king. '' The spirit 
giveth life," and Hfe by spirit was beginning to dawn 
upon Agrippa, because he as will in attention had 
come to meet the spirit of Saint Paul. 

So much stress is laid upon the culture of reason by 
thought, the acquisition of facts accumulated, weighed 
and balanced with each other, so that we will have a 
host of vigorous thinkers, reasoners, formulating 
knowledge into systems, systems into law, until we 
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force that works wonders for the world of educators. 
*' Which of; you, by taking thougJtt, can add one cubit 
to his stature?" and the stature of man is not only 
his body, but his soul as well, — his whole , psychic 
being; — not thought, but spirit that quickeneth, that 
giveth life — that is, adds to life. Spirit that works in 
the mental economy, spirit that carries weight and 
force. Reason is a door through which spirit comes 
from other worlds. Thinking is adherence to the 
letter; knowing is adjustment to spirit; thinking is 
living on a negative plane ; knowing is on a spiritual 
eminence. Education does not imply building in 
power, and knowledge into the mind of the child, or 
student, but the coming out, leading out of will in 
spirit to meet other spirit, or spirit elsewhere. Good 
teaching is the unfolding of good spirit or magnetism : 
those who work in the light brought to them by spirit, 
which covers the whole ground of the world of neces- 
sary intuition or realities, exploring the plant-world 
and animal kingdom as a process from the without in 
will, cultivates negativity ; this is not mental force. 
Cramming makes for insensibility; while education in- 
creases the spirit power, or power of, and for, life. 
Every lesson in all periods should be to manifest the 
spirit of truth, beauty, and goodness ; — one spirit, for 
what is truth is beautiful, and the beautiful is good. 
To awaken self-activity in the child is not to occa- 
sion thinking, for how often, in the little child's beau- 
tiful spontaneity, the adult will find a flaw — and ask 
why the child neglected to do that which had been re- 
quested of him. The answer will invariably be, " I 
didn't think." True, he didn't think; but He did what 
was a thousand times better — lived His soul right out 
to heaven ; his spirit was in full activity willingly ; 
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unwilling obedience, — for here is no spirit, but dead 
thought, that which always makes for death. With- 
out the spirit, there is no life. What we think, we 
see in pictures and describe in words. Neither pic- 
tures nor words have life, because they are only rep- 
resentations of the real, not the real ; but that which 
comes of the spirit we feel, therefore, we know, and 
we know because we feel. 

True apperception is making true relatedness by 
inner connection ; and this is done by spirit with will, 
and will in spirit projected. Then we know because 
— " The spirit beareth witness with our spirit." 

" Right feeling occasions beautiful pictures, which 
is right thinking" (so called). Altruistic emotion 
prompts deeds of kindness to our fellow-men; it is the 
spirit which makes the deed a count, not the deed — a 
spirit-count. Oh, no ! All the alms and deeds in the 
universe are but as sounding brass and tinkling cym- 
bals without the spirit of charity, of love, or truth be- 
hind and in the deed." We feel spirit as we feel the 
air blowing about our faces. We can even feel the 
approach of spirit to the entire intellect as we are 
conscious of approaching thunder-storms. Thus, the 
invisible is present in the visible ; life in death, or the 
changeless in that which is subject to change. 

The new commandment given to us by Christ is a 
manifestation of the spirit of truth; the same spirit 
that emanated from Him in life ; the same spirit that 
must permeate the gift, to make it an eternal act, and 
not sounding brass : " A new commandment I give 
unto you, that ye love one another as I have loved 
you." The little word as conveys the meaning of the 
conception of the Spirit of Christ love. 

We love to watch the flight of a bird, and as it 
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exactly what Victor Hugo has so beautifully ex- 
pressed : 

" Let us be like the bird one instant lighted 
Upon a twig that swings; 
He feels it bend, yet sings on unaffrighted, 
Knowing he has wings." 

Wings of the soul — wings to bear us onward and up- 
ward — spirit wings. How easy to picture, by phan- 
tasy, an angel with wings — literal wings, as we know 
them in material form ! Borne along by spirit : so are 
all living properties. What is it that is exhaled from 
the rose but the spirit. What the exuberance of the 
bird-song, but spirit. The story of life is most beau- 
tifully told in a little song addressed to the bird, which 
ends : 

" What is the best thing of all birdie, 
Seeing the sunshine and sky? 
No, best of all things must be birdie 
Wings ! and a place to fly ! " 

That is just it — the wings of spirit, upon which will 
may conduct the soul-material to the eternal home. 
To know where to fly, and how to use our wings, is 
the purpose of life and value of education. The major- 
ity of our school children give the same reason for 
education that the masses of college students express 
— namely, self-betterment, attainment, acquisition, ac- 
cumulation, knowledge of men and things, etc. ; show- 
ing the appalling limitation of the educational aim, 
compared with educational teachings and purpose, 
life and aim of Christ — which was the addition and 
multiplication of the One in perfection. Christ said 
always, " Not mine, but thine ;" '' Thine is the kingdom, 

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Thine the power, and Thine the glory." To make 
greater, good or God; this is why we Hve, why we 
are educated, why we study self and its environments, 
material and spiritual. We explore the earth and the 
heavens, but alas ! mind is unexplored, and the result 
is a people full of sense-knowledge of matter-world, 
but with little or no recognition of mind, or distinction 
of spirits, and the object or application of all the years 
of school and college research gone for naught, so 
far as they see or know of the ideal, the real, and the 
true spirit. That "spirit which helpeth our infirmi- 
ties," (our lacks, our great gaps in every sense) ; for 
we know not what we should pray for as we ought, 
but the spirit itself maketh intercession for us with 
groanings that can not be uttered. And he that 
searcheth the hearts (he that really studies self in the 
spirit of truth) knoweth what is the mind of the spirit, 
because he maketh intercession for the saints accord- 
ing to the will of God." 

" The same spirit that raised up Jesus Christ from 
the dead : if this Spirit be in you, shall also quicken 
your mortal bodies" — then will the intellect, which is 
in and of the entire mortal body — the emotions and 
the will — be charged with light, with understanding, 
with awareness, with perfect sense-perception and self- 
perception, with apperception and knowledge of mind. 
And in no sense will we then be debtors to the flesh, 
to live after the flesh, but through the spirit will mor- 
tify deeds of the body? We will then be numbered 
among the quick, not the dead. " To whom we yield 
ourselves servants to obey, His servants we are." 
Shall we, then, walk after the spirits of darkness, 
which are chained, limited, and which must keep us 
in bondage? or shall we yield our wills to the same 

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Spirit of abundant life which was in Christ Jesus? 
This spirit which never comes to closed doors, but has 
access to character, to nerves, to emotions, to intel- 
lect, to heart, to brain, to soul, to mind and will, and 
to all other spirits and masters them ; the spirit which 
has access also to the trinity of humanity and the 
Trinity of Divinity. Students, what will we choose, 
the life of Christ or the life of man; the light of 
Christ or the light of men ; the wisdom of Christ or 
the knowledge of our philosophers? " Christ received 
not testimony from man," yet he was a burning and 
shining light. He received by the spirit, and radiated 
with the same Spirit of truth. " Of making many 
books there is no end, and much study is a weariness 
of the flesh." Much study, much reasoning, judging, 
concluding, thinking — oh, such a weariness of the 
ganglia in the flesh ! And all because we will not 
accept, as our very own, the Spirit of Christ, which 
said, "What I hear I judge, and my judgment is 
just: because I seek not mine own will, but the will 
of the Father which hath sent me." " For He whom 
God hath sent speaketh the words of God, for God 
giveth not the Spirit by measure unto Him." See 
now why we have not the Spirit of Christ, because 
we are filled with, and idolatrously hold to, the spirit 
of fear: but no man hath power to retain the spirit 
of truth, neither hath he power in the day of death. 
The spirit is a free agent, a free messenger, a free 
force and power that can be held by no inferior power 
or spirit. But fear we hug closely to us unto death, 
or unto the limitations of the flesh ; and it hath been 
written, " We shall be afraid of that which is high, 
and -fear shall be in the way when man goeth to his 
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way from earliest infancy, because the adult places 
before the child — not only places, but forces, fear upon 
him in a thousand ways; — this evil monster, that 
killeth the will. Christ so tenderly and beautifully 
said, " Fear not, little flock, for it is your Father's 
good pleasure to give you the kingdom." Then why 
will we fear? We find this spirit everywhere. Our 
enemies are the spirits of evil. It is not what is said 
or done that counts for anything, but the spirit in 
which it is said and by which it is done, even with 
the tiny child : the spirit of the child is what makes 
it beautiful or unbeautiful. The Christ Child from 
His birth, waxed strong in spirit. Oh, that we might 
see all the little ones who are sentinto our lives (into 
our atmosphere) wax strong in the spirit of the Christ 
Child. If Christ came to teach us how to live, what 
life and soul, what heaven and God are, then why 
must the child be in darkness for so many years, and 
be considered too young, too innocent and unde- 
veloped to even be allowed to study self or use the 
spirit of wonder in things that belong to the period 
of youth and ^manhood. Life with Christ was one 
life, and God in all life. He never relegated the things 
of spirit to periods : remember, " God giveth not the 
spirit by measure." 

If a child ask bread of its earthly parent, will he 
give him a stone? And if an earthly creature knows 
how to give good gifts, how much more will your 
Heavenly Father give to them that ask? Those who 
ask in true spirit receive — it is not sufficient to ask 
but in the spirit of truth. To look for Christ in the 
right spirit is to find Him. " For whatsoever ye shall 
ask in my name ye shall receive." Ask to see the 
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God is no respector of persons; age or youth makes 
no difference with God. Remember that Christ said: 
" I thank Thee, Father, that Thou hast kept these 
things from the wise and prudent (meaning the self- 
contained, the learned, the reasoners and judges and 
hast revealed them unto babes" (the untutored, un- 
learned and ignorant, so far as the world counts knowl- 
edge). Receive the Spirit of Christ from the child 
and give the Spirit of Christ to the child, and then 
we will find the truth of Christ's psychologic lesson, 
both for ourselves and the child. " Seek ye first the 
kingdom of God, and all else shall be added unto 
you." 

This is not our method; we fear to pursue such a 
course, because doubt, the spirit of the devil, is an 
ally, and we listen to his messages. He tells us that 
all else will not be added : we must use other means, 
follow other methods, and build a thinking, reasoning 
brain for ourselves ; and then, if the things that belong 
to the Kingdom of God accord with our reason, we 
may accept or reject the spirits that be from thence, 
for we have reached the years or period of discretion. 
Do we not thereby crucify our Lord afresh, and put 
Him to an open shame? If the culture of reason is 
not the effluvium of the Spirit of Christ, (the spirit 
of truth), then are we indeed slaves, and in darkest 
depths of confusion by adverse spirits; just as man is 
in darkest confusion of doubt and question when he 
attempts to place limitations and explanations upon 
electricity. All reasoning without the Spirit of Christ 
is blind credulity; necessarily must be, because it is 
built up of sight and sound (that is, ear and eye) evi- 
dence out of the physical inferences given by his en- 
vironment. 

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Let us drop these dead formulas, and go on unto 
perfection in the spirit of these beautifully trUe words 
of Charles Wesley: 

" By Thine unerring spirit led, 

We shall not in the desert stray ; 

We shall not full direction need, 
Nor miss our providential way, 

As far from danger as from fear. 

While Love, Almighty Love, is near." 



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CHAPTER V. 



MIND OR SOURCB—THB POUNTAIN- 
HBAD. 

" Let this mind be in you which was also in Christ 
Jesus." One of the strongest contradictions of this 
statement is made, by psychologists in general, by 
such assertions as these : " Mind must have materials 
of thought before it thinks ; man must look out of him- 
self before he looks within ; great care should be given 
to the acquisition of ideas, in order to develop mind." 
" The mind searches its previous knowledge compar- 
ing and assimilating, and thereby enriches itself: the 
cultivation of memory grows mind ; fancies are pro- 
ducts of our own minds." '' We are dependent on 
self-perception for our knowledge of the mind-world ; 
holding a subject before the mind strengthens mem- 
ory." And a thousand more of the same character; 
3^et, in them all, we do not find a definition or solu- 
tion of mind. All this grows or makes mind, yet 
when the question is asked, ''What is mind?" we 
are told that it is unknown and unknowable. Why, 
then, did Christ say, " Be ye all of one mind ;" when 
each personality builds a separate and distinct mind, 
" Let this mind be in you which was also in Christ 
Jesus." This means the same, the one mind. Much 
has been written, long lectures have been delivered, 
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discussed the subject of child-mind — what is there, 
and what must be read or put into it? Teachers 
spend many valuable hours on the thought of how 
they may develop the undeveloped mind of the child; 
they place this and that object and subject before the 
child, as they believe that sense-knowledge of these 
things will have a culturing effect on the mind of the 
child; for mental activity may become a means of 
culture. In the first place, there is no such thing as 
child-mind in the sense of weak, small, undeveloped 
or childish. " Be ye all, . . ." ''All" includes 
humanity, the children of one Father, God. Nor has 
mind plurality. Mind is one: so Christ taught and 
so we believe, so we know. If we know self we know 
Christ, and if we know Christ we know the mind of 
Christ, and also what this one mind is, which He had 
and gave to His disciples and to all the world, if the 
world would receive it. 

There is one thing that the whole world will ac- 
knowledge, even while they see not what it is : all will 
confess that mind is power, the greatest power in the 
world. " God anointed Christ with this power, so 
that He, by the power of mind, healed all that were 
oppressed with devils (spirits of evil), and raised the 
dead. When Saint Paul persecuted the churches and 
Christians, it was because he thought he was doing 
God service : he was not doing it by the power of mind, 
because scales, as it were, so covered his sight that 
he did not see what mind was. So soon as he saw he 
was willing to receive that mind which was in Christ, 
and did receive it, so that his acts which were done 
before were in the spirit of thought. After he saw 
he worked in the spirit of mind. In the prayer of 
all prayers, offered for men by Christ to the Father, 
He tells us of this one mind. " Holy Father, keep 

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through Thine own name those whom Thou hast 
given me, that they may be one as we are." *' Neither 
pray I for these alone,, but for them also which shall 
believe on me, that they all may be one as Thou, 
Father, art in me and I in Thee, that they also may 
be one in us. O Righteous Father; the world hath 
not known Thee, but I have known Thee." True, 
indeed ! The world hath not yet known the Father, 
because like Saul, they keep the scales closely cov- 
ered over by insisting upon plurality of mind and its 
unknowableness. There are thousands of professing 
Christians over the world to-day, but are they of one 
mind, and has that mind power over all flesh? No: 
neither is there oneness of mind, nor comprehension 
of what mind is; much less is there power over all 
flesh — one of the greatest proofs of which is the strug- 
gle to cultivate memory. 

Whence comes the Spirit of truth but from Mind, 
as mind is the source of truth, and Christ said that 
" The world could not receive the Spirit of truth be- 
cause it seeth Him not, neither knoweth Him." How 
can the world know Him, if it knows not Mind, 
whence it comes? "He that walketh in darkness 
knoweth not whither he goeth." Man does not hesi- 
tate to acknowledge this darkness when he knows not 
Mind, nor whence it comes except that it is power. 
Christ told the disciples to tarry in Jerusalem until 
they were endued with Power from on High — the 
same Power which made all things possible to Christ; 
and He being filled with this power, knew the thoughts 
of those about Him. He knew, with Mind, their 
thoughts, which were not mind, but their own false 
conclusions and judgments after the flesh ; for Christ 
distinctly said to them, "Ye judge after the flesh." 
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and possessed Mind. The Virgin Mary was also 
conscious of Mind in fullest experience. If we walk 
in the light as He is in the light, we have fellowship 
one with another, and the blood of Jesus Christ, His 
Son, cleanseth us from all sin." " But the anointing 
which ye have received of Him abideth in you, and 
ye need not that any man teach you : but as the same 
anointing teacheth you of all things, and is truth and 
is no lie, even as it hath taught, ye shall abide in 
Him." And what is this anointing? What is this 
teaching, which is all of truth, needs no growth, no 
building, no culture, no development, no education? 
According to physiological psychology, mind must be 
developed, cultured, strengthened by all kinds of phy- 
siological exercises from a weak wavering, faulty con- 
dition in childhood to a strong, educated mind in man- 
hood. And we are given by man, specific laws and 
means by which this growth may be brought about. 

Because we can originate thoughts, make new com- 
binations, build new ideas, invent new and unused 
formulas, does not say that we have a strong mentality 
or are working in the mind-world, and from it. Men- 
tality — that which pertains to mind — how then can 
we call this or that, mentality if we can not define 
mind. Christ possessed mind from His mother's 
womb. 

We often hear of people being called mind-readers, 
when in truth they are thought-readers, only discern- 
ing what is passing in thought, as. it is impossible to 
read mind from man. Again, it is said that "certain 
thoughts pass before the mind's eye." But do we 
know what is meant by "mind's eyes?" Ignorance 
often develops sacrilege. A few years ago, an anony- 
mous article on " The Improvement of Mind " 
appeared in one of our daily papers, which was 

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indeed most ignorantly sacrilegious. Ignorance is 
blamable in such cases, for we are told, '' Be ye not 
stumbling-blocks." The article in question made the 
following statements : " The mind is a very delicate, 
complicated piece of mechanism, and although made 
to do a certain kind of work marvelously well, yet, 
when put to an entirely different use, its efficiency is 
ruined; just as the delicate machinery intended for 
producing fine watch-parts would be completely 
spoiled for this purpose if used to make clock-parts. 
When the mind becomes deflected to a certain extent 
from its normal condition by vicious reading habits, 
it diverges more and more, and rarely goes back to 
the normal. Desultory reading puts the mind in a 
chaotic state, because you let every thing run into 
the mental reservoir without order, and everything 
comes out of the mind as it went in; and if it does 
not enter in an orderly manner, it will come out in 
chaos." In this terribly misleading bit of information 
we have the gist of most of the instruction given to 
children on the great and holy subject of Mind and 
Mentality. If these things were given in light in- 
stead of darkness, they would be perfect blasphemy. 
As it is, without light, it is not an unpardonable sin, 
yet sin, because it is willful, and we are accountable 
for every act of will. We will be responsible for 
every idle word, and how much more the weight of 
that which is a matter of choice with us ! 

Can it be possible that we read into the Bible what 
is not there, but in our own thoughts? In the first 
place, if it is in mind — the truth which is in mind, is 
also in the Bible; if it is not truth, it is not in mind 
at all, therefore, not in the Bible ; but a manufactured 
conception of our own brains ; for much that is erron- 
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Falsehood is all man's product; all that is the oppo- 
site of truth is manufactured by man. Mind can not 
invent falsehood; mind gives only truth. 

To the efficient teacher the physical, moral and 
mental economy of thq child is an open book ; happy 
and blessed indeed, then, is the efficient teacher, for 
she is one who is filled with mind constantly, which 
enables her to meet mind in the child. We may safely 
think and speak of physical and intellectual as well 
as moral economy; but the application to mind is 
altogether impossible to man as he is. Mentality is 
understandable and applicable, but not mental econ- 
omy; because mind is not a corporation nor a state; 
it is not a system of rules by which we manage it, 
for we can not manage mind. Neither to us is it a 
system by which mind manages or rules, for we can 
not know anything about it, since it emanates from 
the inner court of the Almighty God. Mind is the 
Power from on High : " Behold, I send the promise of 
my Father." The Power from on High which gave 
to the disciples power of mind, the same which Christ 
had from His birth; for the Virgin Mother was over- 
shadowed by the Holy Ghost, and that which was 
conceived in her was of the Holy Ghost. The angel 
of the Lord appeared to Zacharias, foretelling the 
birth of Saint John ; he announced that the child John 
would be filled with the Holy Ghost. 

It was revealed to Saint Simeon by the Holy Ghost 
that he should not see death before he had seen the 
Lord Christ. Because Saint John was filled with 
the Holy Ghost, he was to give light to them that 
were in darkness ; and by the power of the Holy Ghost 
Zacharias confessed that, through the tender mercy 
of God, the dayspring from on high had visited us. 
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the Holy Ghost — mind is light. The spirit of the Holy- 
Ghost descended upon Christ at His baptism, to show 
the people that it was He which should baptize with 
the Holy Ghost. " Except a man be born of the Holy 
Ghost he can not see the Kingdom of Heaven. So 
is every one that is born of this spirit. Mind comes 
and goes like the wind that bloweth. We can not 
hold it, or possess it as our own ; it is of God and re- 
turns to God. No rules or plans or mechanisms can 
guide, control, or grow it. We can never cultivate 
mind, for it is of the Holy Ghost. Christ hath said, 
" The word which ye hear is not mine, but the 
Father's which sent me" — showing plainly the differ- 
ence between the individual thought-expression and 
that which comes from God the Holy Ghost, which is 
mind. God, the loving Father, comes in spirit to 
us. Christ, the Word or Expression of God, comes 
to us again in the same spirit; and the Holy Ghost, 
the Mind of God, comes to reveal God to us, and make 
us one : for only by knowing God can we be one with 
Christ, as He was and is One with the Father of Love 
and Light and Life. 

Christ revealed the work of the Holy Ghost to His 
disciples when He said, " The Comforter which is the 
Holy Ghost whom the Father will send in my name : 
He shall teach you all things, and bring all things to 
your remembrance, whatsoever I have said unto you." 
The Holy Ghost would give mental light to them 
of the things which Christ had told them, but which 
they did not, and could not understand until they re- 
ceived the Holy Ghost. " The time cometh when I 
shall show you plainly of the Father." " For this is 
life eternal, that they might know Thee, the only true 
God and Jesus Christ, whom Thou hast sent." Holy 
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Thou hast given me, that they may be one, as we are. 
That was a prayer for the Holy Ghost to give the one 
Mind which made Christ and God the Father One. 
How easy, with Christ's psychology, is it to define 
mind from thought! "Ye judge after the flesh; I 
judge of the spirit." Mind comes not by a struggle 
of the flesh, not by much study, which is a weariness 
of the flesh. ''But pray the Holy Ghost, and He will 
give thee whatsoever thou askest." When the dis- 
ciples waited together in one place with one intention 
of will (which is the fullest, highest, and deepest kind 
of prayer), they were filled with the Holy Ghost, so 
that they spoke in different languages, that the truth 
might be made known to all who were of different 
nations and tongues and tribes. This is mind, this is 
intuitive knowing: the same as when we feel and ex- 
press our surety of God above, and our belief that 
Christ came in the flesh. This is done by the power 
of mind, and does not come of reasoning conclusions. 
Christ rebuked those that reasoned among them- 
selves, trying to come to conclusions about Him: 
" Why reason ye among yourselves? Know ye not? " 
That which comes of mind admits of no question; it 
is positive evidence in itself. All prayer that is in 
the Holy Ghost (in mind) is answered prayer, whether 
it be in seclusion on our knees, or fully humiliated 
will in mind, in the busiest marts of life-activity; 
fulfillment always comes; but that which is not in 
mind builds up nothing. Saint John said, " Ye have 
an unction from the Holy One, and ye know all 
things." Saint Peter had this unction when he said, 
" Take heed to the word of prophecy as unto a light 
that shineth in a dark place, until the day dawn and 
the day-star arise in your hearts." 

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of man : but holy men of God spake as they were 
moved by the Holy Ghost." 

" Until the day dawn and the day-star arise in your 
heart" — what can be more beautifully clear concerning 
mind? Is not the day-star light — a light that shineth 
brightly? And light, in the Spirit sense or mind, 
world is knowing intuitively : knowing in Hght ; know- 
ing without question, without need of interpreters, 
without text-book or history — seeing only as it is re- 
vealed to us, not forestalHng God ; for the one requisite 
which brings the anointing by the Holy Ghost is 
humility. " Humble yourselves, therefore, under the 
mighty hand of God, that He may exalt you in due 
season." How then, can we study the mind-world ; 
how look into it, grow it, cultivate it, and develop it, 
by our own conceit, our opinions, concepts and con- 
clusions ; in other words, our pride? "For by the 
power of mind Saint James said, " Ye rejoice in your 
boastings, and all such boastings is evil." Wherever 
we find the true spirit of humility, there we find mind. 
" For the word of God is quick and powerful, and 
sharper than any two-edged sword, piercing even to 
the dividing asunder of soul and spirit, and of the 
joints and marrow, and is a discerner of the thoughts 
and intents of the heart." What a mighty condemna- 
tion is this of our physiological psychology! — divid- 
ing soul and spirit, cleaving them so that there is no 
communication with soul by spirit, severing joints and 
marrow; making it impossible for mind to be a light 
to us. Without brain, or gray matter connections and 
cerebral processes ; and mind discerning these pro- 
cesses in thought and the intention of will. " The 
gifts of the Holy Ghost are by the will of God," not 
by man's will. Herein lies the essential requisite for 
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Ghost: absolute surrender of the self-will to God — 
true, pure, humility. 

To make confusion by placing spirit and Holy Ghost 
in thought as one and the same power; is only to 
wrap the cloak of darkness more closely about us; to 
be stiff-necked and puffed up, vain in our own conceits, 
perverse and stubborn. But let us, with Saint Paul, 
give thanks unto the Father, which hath made us meet 
to be partakers of the inheritance of the saints in light, 
"strengthened with all might according to His glorious 
power; even the mystery which has been hid from 
ages and generations, but now is made manifest to 
His saints," and His saints are those who take on the 
whole armor of God, and the helmet of salvation, and 
the sharp, piercing sword of the Spirit of truth, which 
is the Word of God, or Mind of God, in the Holy 
Ghost. 

Now we know why we should study the physical 
from the stand-point of self, in order to so guide 
and care for the marvelous mechanism to which mind 
is communicated. We would not expect a telegraph 
operator to understand the message received, nor to 
transmit a correct or intelligible message, unless he 
first made an exhaustive study and investigation of 
the instrument used for the purpose of transmission. 
In this sense, physical improvement makes for us 
a clearer instrument of mind; the more perfect the 
instrument, the surer is the music or message: there 
are no breaks, weak wires, obstructions, cloggings 
by misuse of the physical, or twists and knots of will 
to hinder the entrance or anointing of the Holy Ghost. 
It is acknowledged that self is in touch with the outer 
world by the intellective ganglia and their connections, 
and in an unknown way through the emotive ganglia 
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unknown way except the failure to see and receive 
the truth of the means of connection or entrance of 
mind ? 

Because Christ was filled with thei Holy Ghost, be- 
cause He knew the Father; He spoke as One having 
authority, and not as the scribes, the Jewish doctors 
of the law ; for their teaching was the result of reason- 
ing, the judgments of the flesh, as Christ called them, 
and they always ring with suggestive interrogations. 
Not so the speech of one who expresses mind; for 
this speech resounds with authority, because of its 
undisputable truth. Christ spoke with the same 
authority when He was a little Child — and " Out of 
the mouths of babes and sucklings God still ordains 
strength. Children born of the Spirit of God; who 
receive the Holy Ghost and spontaneously express 
what is given to them to speak. 

The wise men who sought the Christ Child were 
taught by the Holy Ghost. Why, then, do we clamor 
for knowledge continually, and pick at the lock of 
what we suppose to be the door of knowledge, — not 
waiting for God's word, but forestalling it? 

Know thyself as the graphophone of God; study 
thyself as a marvelous mechanism through, and by 
which God may reveal Himself more fully, more 
clearly, than in any other natural form; for man is 
made in the image and likeness of God — mind (after 
the mind of God; patterned according to the image 
He had in mind for eternal creation. So by this study 
of self, man may daily and hourly with more and 
more surprise, exclaim, " I am fearfully and wonder- 
fully made. Oh, my God!" "Know thyself" is the 
imperative of the age, as it has been the cry that has 
reverberated along the avenues of time since Christ 
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melody which Christ set in motion, and which still 
resounds with thousand-fold accompaniments and 
symphonies through all our hearts. As we interro- 
gate the outer world and find its secret treasures, so 
we should interrogate self to become acquainted with 
the inner world of mind — the world of God the Holy 
Ghost ; for by the Holy Ghost alone will the inner 
world be revealed to man. " Education that is worthy 
to be so called, is a living in the soul-life that feels 
and finds the One in all," as Froebel tells us. Study 
self to find harmony and unity; and only by finding 
what is in mind-world will we begin to realize or 
understand harmony. 

Phantasy is the woof of outward experiences ; it is 
the work of self as a mechanism, while imagination 
is the mechanism acted upon — that which gives power 
to see, hear, reproduce (generally called create) ; that 
which is beyond the self — as the writing of a sym- 
phony by Beethoven, the. picturing on canvas of that 
which has never before been seen, the fulfillment of 
a vision seen in the hours of sleep, the wonderful 
revelations that come to the child which the adult 
either places as the play of phantasy or the deliberate 
creation of lies, and forbids him to represent or re- 
produce that which comes to him as imagination. In 
this alone is a mighty field for self-study ; for imagin- 
ation is really the lens, the tympanum, the touch- 
organ which opens to us the door of the mind-world, 
and reveals to usi that which comes in no other way; 
it was planned by the Almighty Creator to come by 
that means. Imagination does not create fiction — 
can not create it; but phantasy does weave fiction. 
Imagination receives truth and truth alone. Much of 
the so-called imagination culture is the growth of 
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our capacity for making falsehood, thereby closing 
the doors to mind and upon mind, quenching the spirit 
of truth ; and the Spirit of truth is of God and revealed 
to man only by the Holy Ghost: so we thus do what 
we are distinctly told not to do : " Quench not the 
spirit." Let imagination have full play, grasp and 
reproduce that which comes by imagination as a 
gift from God ; but do not confound it with phantasy. 
'' Try the spirits, whether they be of God." " Let 
this mind be in you which was also in Christ Jesus." 
Let it, allow it to be, acknowledge it manfully; fight 
under the banner of imagination, for it is the flag of 
freedom, the flag of truth, the banner that sets you 
free from the bondage of self, as in a prison-house or 
out-house, shut off from God. Let us so study psy- 
chology, that we shut not ourselves out from mind, 
but allow mind to have free, open unobstructed ave- 
nues by which the harmony, unity, and full destiny 
of life may be made known to us, so that our lives 
may be the joyful song-prayer of Phoebe Gary's 

" I ask not wealth, but power to take 
And use the things I have aright; 
Not years, but wisdom that shall make 
My life a profit and delight. 

" I ask not that for me the plan 
Of good and ill be set aside, 
But that the common lot of man 
Be nobly borne and glorified!" 



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WISDOM-^S A RBSULTANT, 

"In all thy getting, get wisdom." 

The material universe furnishes unlimited means for 
special sense-culture, which is intellectual develop- 
ment, if rightly assimilated, and a sound sensorium 
enhances sense-perception; and while perfect sensa- 
tion comes from healthy physical conditions, and 
healthy physical conditions make a sound organism, 
yet these means alone do not underlie mental improve- 
ment; nor are they, in any sense of the word, the 
basis of all mental activity, as proven in the preceding 
chapter on ''Mind." Does a discriminating memory 
develop wisdom? Am I wise when my taste is culti- 
vated so that I prefer ripe, sound fruit to unripe or 
partially fermented fruit? A beautiful sunset to a cir- 
cus, or Shakespeare to light and frothy novels? I 
am intellectually developed, but not necessarily wise. 
Is it a wise teacher who regards hygienic laws and 
carefully guides her pupils in sense-perception culture, 
and the study of all that may increase their knowledge 
of the world and things surrounding them, so that 
they may rise in the intellectual scale above their 
fellows? She may be called keen, bright, smart, intel- 
ligent, but not wise : the wise teachers are indeed rare. 
In almost every school-room we find our children 
being grown by sense, in the sense-world, to and for 

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the sense world, and not growing as the Christ, "In 
wisdom and stature and in favor with God and man." 
Observe how this is placed by the wise man who wrote 
it : "The child increased first in wisdom, and was first 
in favor with God, then man. Is this how our chil- 
dren are growing? No: for in almost every school- 
room in the land they are being bribed, paid, hired to 
rise above their fellows — to reach the head of the 
list, no matter how it is accomplished; to be No. 1, so 
that they may win the prize and applause of the 
world ; to struggle for the head seat in the synagogue, 
that he may further be a wage-earner or money-maker, 
either to support his family in luxury, or to become a 
gold king. America is teeming with boys and girls 
whose educational endeavors are just these, because 
forced into it in their school-life; if not born with it 
tingling in the blood. Can they increase in wisdom 
in such a life-school, and do they first grow in favor 
with God ? Sadly, no ! What is largely conceived 
as wisdom in our American children is conceit and 
may we not easily pass it along the line to father, 
mother, teacher? When occasionally a wise child or 
man has found pure soil in which to develop, they are 
looked upon as Saint Paul, by Festus — that "Much 
learning hath made them mad ;" they are beside them- 
selves or possessed of evil. Wisdom is as hard to 
recognize to-day as it was two thousand years ago. 
Where we find sensation and awareness, conception 
and apperception, we will not always find wisdom, un- 
less apperception is not that of which we are re- 
peatedly taught — " assimilation of old ideas with new." 
If it is true that thought contributes wisdom, then in- 
deed was Paul mad; for wisdom never has been a re- 
sultant of thought. Storing and reproducing knowl- 
edge is not the acquisition of wisdom. 

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Madame de Saussure was right and wise when she 
asserted that at the beginning of Hfe imagination is 
all-powerful ; for who will deny that heaven lies about 
us in our infancy," and imagination is the great work- 
ing model from the store-house of wisdom? Saint 
Paul wisely said, ''When I was a child, I thought as 
a child." He did not say, "I imagined as a child; I 
absorbed knowledge and drank of the fountain of wis- 
dom as a child." As he had so long been dark, he had 
lost sight of the child light and called it childish. Saint 
Paul, after his conversion, was wise — as he was when 
a little child. The well-known proverb, " Fools and 
children tell the truth," is a stronger acknowledgment 
of the absence and ignorance of wisdom in the masses 
than appears on the face of the proverb. The wise 
mother, father, and even teacher, will gather inspira- 
tion from the wisdom of the child, and thereby get 
wisdom, if she truly is wise enough to believe that 
she can be led by a child ; she can find her Christ 
Child if she seeks him. The wise man builds his 
house upon a rock, and that rock is Christ ; the foolish 
build upon shifting sands, which are the shifting, 
wavering thoughts of man. The house on the rock 
shall stand forever and ever, but the structures built 
upon sand shall be destroyed ; for we are told, by the 
word of authority and wisdom, that "all our thoughts 
shall perish." He is wise who knoweth the interpre- 
tation of a thing by the Spirit of the Holy Ghost. " A 
man's wisdom maketh his face to shine, but knowl- 
edge of thought maketh the face bold." " The words 
of the wise are as goads, and as nails fastened by the 
masters of assemblies, which are given from One 
Shepherd.'' The Word of God is fixed, fastened for all 
eternity ; " Heaven and earth shall pass away, but my 
word shall not pass away. The word of the wise is 

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driven into eternity as goads and nails, for wisdom 
results from application of the heart to influences of 
the Holy Ghost. To understand what the will of the 
Lord is, is to be wise, to have wisdom; not to know 
God's will is to be foolish and unwise ; only followers 
of God are wise. That which pertains to temporal 
life alone can not be wisdom, for those who work for 
temporal gain " have their understanding darkened, 
being alienated from the life of God through the ignor- 
ance that is in them," because of the blindness of their 
hearts. " The words of these, however learned, will 
soon be forgotten ; they perish almost as soon as 
uttered, for the thoughts which formulated them 
perish. We think in words and pictures, which are 
the dead-letters of the law ; we feel wisdom in spirit 
reality or activity, so that they who to us speak wisely 
we can not resist the wisdom and the spirit by which 
they speak — for the words are goads. The greatest 
blessing one person can bestow upon another is, the 
prayer which Saint Paul offered for the Colossians, 
" to desire that they may be filled with the knowledge 
of God's will in all wisdom and spiritual understand- 
ing, and strengthened with all might according to 
His glorious power." " The mystery which has been 
hidden from ages and generations is now made mani- 
fest by wisdom" from on high through the Com- 
forter, which is the Holy Ghost." He shall reveal 
the treasures of wisdom of God the Father and 
Christ. It is written by the prophets that those who 
come shall all be taught of God. 

" Who taught the bird to build its nest of moss and 
hay and hair ? Who taught the little ant tne way 
its narrow nest to weave? Who teaches the babe to 
call for food and smile his God-given love to his 
mother? " If any of you lack wisdom let him ask of 

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God, who giveth to all men liberally, and upbraideth 
not;" but we can not claim it as our own — an indi- 
vidual possession, saying: "I am wise; I did this by 
my great wisdom," for then is it swallowed up in 
conceit, and the doors of wisdom shall be shut against 
us, and we are like the nine lepers who were cleansed, 
but returned not to give thanks unto God. Not mine, 
but Thine is the power, and Thine shall be the praise 
and glory. 

Wisdom is of God; comes to man from God, and 
must return to its source. The light of wisdom is the 
result of true cultivation of will — right choice of 
spirits, open channels for the reception of God the 
Holy Ghost. Only such education will bring wisdom ; 
but the query comes, " Will the little child have, soon 
after birth, all these requirements?" Each respon- 
sible adult will, and can satisfactorily answer : " Is it 
possible to transmit to the child from the hour of its 
conception a cultured will? Can the mother and 
father so guide and culture its prenatal environment 
that the child is born free of shackles of bondage? Can 
the child be brought to the world in and through and 
by choice of the right spirits, so that he is prepared for 
right choice? And if the child is God's child, conse- 
crated in holy communion with the Holy Ghost, even 
before conception, will not his channels be open 
and unobstructed? Will not God know His own, and 
communicate Himself to His child? Herein lies 
man's larger responsibility to Heaven than simply 
the saving of his own soul, the building of a mansion 
in heaven or hell for himself. " No man liveth unto 
himself, nor dieth unto himself." He is a link in the 
great chain of humanity, and, therefore, responsible 
for all other links beside his own. 

While sense-perception is at the base of the cogni- 

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tive pyramid, wisdom and not reason is the crown, 
if we can call it crown; for it certainly does not be- 
long to the head, or a finish, a covering or termination 
of distinction and honor to man : For, if we make a 
symbol for wisdom, it will not be a pyramid, but a 
perpetual spiral. 

Each capability and all separately and collectively 
are elemental in mind, co-operative with will. We 
have heard of the circular sweep of the soul, let us 
transfer it to where it really belongs — the circular 
sweep of mind, which, when in conjunction with will, 
brings the resultant that is called wisdom. 

Infinite mind planned the universe, all things from 
atoms to systems of worlds are unitized by the great 
cause relationships. Is man alone left out. as an 
atom of humanity in this great unity? Only by his 
own will does he shut himself off from perfect co- 
operation with God's great plan; but if we enter the 
circle of mind — the unity of the Trinity, then, en- 
dowed with wisdom, we feel the mind of God, we are 
able to lift the veil of mystery and interpret truth. 

The babe that comes through pure channels is en- 
dowed with this unlettered wisdom — and it is the 
effort to letter it that makes us cover and forget the 
knowing that came from the courts of our God. 

Reasoning is cold unemotional calculation, which is 
an open sesame to greed, avarice, tact, ambition, art- 
fulness, and a host of spirits of evil that gladly enter 
the field of reason, when utilized as cause and not in- 
strumental in effect. Utilized and looked upon as 
cause lessens moral responsibility and self-perception, 
and makes of man a slave, a prisoner, wanderer. Wis- 
dom is directly emotional and recognized as from the 
one great cause; develops freedom, poise, repose, trust, 
responsive activity, moral connections, eternal respon- 

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sibilities and a full consciousness " in all that he liveth, 
he liveth unto God." All capabilities are co-operative 
implements or instruments for use in the great Mas- 
ter's service, and wisdom is our torch-light over a 
direct road to the goal of action. No bondage, no 
slavery, to war spirits ; no locked cells as prison- 
houses ; no wandering into by-paths of uncertainty : 
for your mentality is wisdom. 

The little child proves its title to wisdom in that 
its willing interest centres upon the living natural 
creations of God instead of man — conceive systems, 
laws, rules, and regulations. He would find God in 
the works of God; but man forces upon the child's 
recognition and enslaves his interest upon formulas, 
creeds, dogmas, histories of war, etc., usually all of 
which are the outcome of reason, and the pure, un- 
lettered wisdom of the child is crowded out by the 
lettered reason of man. 

The great need of the world to-day is wise teachers, 
who will unite wisdom with wisdom, and begin the 
real destiny of education. We want a race of men and 
women like the seven who were chosen by the apostles 
for the apostolic succession — men filled with the Holy 
Ghost and wisdom, who were appointed to preach, 
to teach, to educate the world ; to evolutionize and 
revolutionize the human children who Vv^ere lost in 
the maze of their own reason. Of all the followers 
of Christ, and all who had heard the words of wis- 
dom from the twelve disciples, only seven men were 
found who were filled with wisdom. Such a tiny 
few out of the great family of humanity ! And to-day, 
the majority is still on the side of those who are 
without wisdom. The great word of command to 
every teacher, preacher, mother and father to-day, 
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without; redeeming the time." "Being not unwise, 
but understanding what the will of the Lord is." 

If the sum and substance of all our getting was 
wisdom ; if all effort spent upon the acquisition of 
objective knowledge were poured forth in one prayer- 
ful intent upon wisdom, the millennium would not be 
far distant, and the kingdom of Heaven would be at 
man's right hand. 

The great difficulty to-day is not so much that we 
have unthinking masses, but unwise, misguided wills, 
that think plentifully, but flounder in the mire of 
self-judgments; the judgments that Christ meant 
when He said, " Ye judge after the flesh : but if I 
judge, my judgment is true, for I am not alone, but 
I and the Father that sent me. I judge no man." So, 
then, if judgments are the stufif out of which reasons 
are made, and if reasons are interlocked judgments, 
then it is indeed clear that we are astray when we 
rely on our judgments and our reason; for the light 
of knowledge, which is nothing more or less than a 
dark-lantern, or one of the unwise virgin's lamps 
without oil — not filled, trimmed or in any sense ready 
for the bridegroom. 

Philosophy is a product of reason, while prophecy 
is the output of wisdom. The first weighs, measures, 
balances, calculates ; — while the other is authoritative 
evidence — conclusive, without any opposite against 
which it can be challenged. That which is reasonable 
is not prophecy, for prophecy can not be explained 
by reason. The output of wisdom does not meet 
reason, is not reasonable ; therefore, wisdom is more to 
be desired than judgment, gold, or kingdoms of the 
world ; for wisdom is of God, while judgment is of 
man. One is a natural inheritance, the other a 
heavenly heritage. " Judgments are the stuflF out of 

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which reasons are made;" truth is the law which 
creates wisdom. Culture of judgment develops good 
sense; the possession of wisdom develops self. Lack 
of good sense is a deplorable intellectual defect, but 
lack of wisdom is a spiritual emptiness. It is a diffi- 
cult matter to induce the child to respond to individual 
reason, but there is never a pause in his ready co- 
operation with wisdom. 

We have been taught to think and speak of self as 
reason ; it is only self in so far as body is necessary, 
for soul development, hands necessary for body, eyes 
necessary for the transmission of light. Only thus 
can we see self as reason, for reason is a faculty or 
capability of self; but wisdom is a resultant of the 
mind-world, and not of self, as it is not created by 
self, but by God. 

If faith is confidence in our own conclusions, then 
small wonder is it that Christ likened man's faith 
unto something more minute than a grain of mustard- 
seed. We may study history on such faith, but we 
will not so much as enter the threshold of God's King- 
dom with so small a passport. So long as science 
rests in reason, it, too, will have the stamp of limita- 
tion : " Thus far shalt thou go and no farther." But 
open the doors of reason ; " lift up your heads, O ye 
gates, and be ye lifted up, ye everlasting doors, and 
the King of Glory shall come in. Reason is the door, 
the entrance-gate, to wisdom. If the education of 
reason gives independence, it is not freedom ; inde- 
pendence is only the road to freedom. Wisdom 
makes you free, because it is the undeniable truth, 
and " the truth shall make you free." 

To define the emotions according to Christ's psy- 
chologic teachings we would group them into — 

1. Selfish emotions. 

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2. Selfless emotions, and 

3. Unity emotions. 

The first group, or selfish emotions, are those which 
are held in sense; the second, those which are di- 
rempted from self as sense; and the third, the emo- 
tions that are placed by wisdom, into unity, harmony, 
love in the universal whole. Emotion is the opera- 
tion of consciousness of mind. Sensation is merely 
the excitation of sensor-organs, caused by material 
stimuli ; sensations occasion ideas, while emotions 
occasion ideals, because emotions are generated 
from the same source as wisdom. God is wis- 
dom as He is love, for mind is of God. While 
sensation belongs to the matter-world ; emotion comes 
of the world of necessary realities and mind. One is 
sense, the other self-activity; one is subjected to 
reason, the other to wisdom by the controlled known 
self; but when the self is not known and controlled, 
emotions are misplaced, misused, distorted by sense 
into evil. All purposed self-culture of what is termed 
egoistic emotion is the development of that which is 
directly opposed to the psychology of Christ and to 
the getting of that wisdom which has been so force- 
fully enjoined upon us. 

The mother holds the first place of responsibility in 
fostering wisdom in the child. The office of mother- 
hood is the highest calling on earth or in heaven. 
For is it not the office of the great Fatherhood and 
Motherhood of God — creation? Create with God! 
This is the high calling of parenthood ; and the mother 
has the larger share of nurturing with and for God, 
finding God in herself, in her husband and in 
her child, and nurturing every ray of divine 
light, every spark of wisdom that comes through 
the child — for herself, the world, and heaven. 

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After, and co-operative with the mother in the true 
Hfe development of the child, comes the Kindergart- 
ner, or spiritual foster-mother. In the wise hearts of 
these love-inspired helpers will be the pure soil, clear 
sunlight, and dew of environment in which the child 
of God may "grow in wisdom and in favor with God." 

The aim of all the mother's getting, therefore, must 
be wisdom. The aim of the kindergartner's getting 
should be wisdom. The united aim of all educators 
is surely the search for wisdom. 

Man has been called " the knowledge-seeking 
animal." By this united desire for wisdom man will 
be called " the wise spirit of humanity," which will 
subdue and crush out all animal instincts and raise 
to all heights, the divine impulses of wisdom ; so that 
we need not wait until we become immortal to read 
God's Book of Wisdom ; we may here and now walk 
with God, work with God, live with God in that 
power of mind which shall make all things possible. 
Froebel lived in this motto : " I love him who seeks 
the impossible." He it is who seeks wisdom, for 
what is impossible to reason is possible in wisdom. 
Wisdom colors everything with rainbow colors, brings 
joy and peace, fullness and fulfillment. Happiness 
may come of knowledge, but joy is born of wisdom. 
Attention is the condition for wisdom as well as the 
condition for knowledge. Attention to the living 
spirit of the child gives the truest key by which the 
mother or teacher may unlock the treasures of wis- 
dom. Much of the living light of the child is snuffed 
out by adult extinguishers. Let us take Christ's word 
for it, and find the Kingdom of Heaven, the light and 
love and life from God in the little child, and then 
good teaching will consist in wise living with the 
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encouraging the pupil to educate, by self-activity, all 
of mind that is in him, so as to make free outlet for 
more and more income of mind; more and more light 
of wisdom, which throws sunlight clearness upon all 
subjects and objects. Then will be seen and under- 
stood mental phenomena ; for without wisdom "men- 
tal phenomena" is merely an empty term, applied to 
intellectual acquisitions by sensation and thought, pro- 
duced by sensation, misused emotion, misapplied im- 
pulse, and the erection of a monument to the unknown 
self by reason. For what is being wise in your own 
conception, but placing your own reason on the 
highest pedestal and worshipping at that shrine? 

"Wisdom giveth life to them that have it." "A 
good man, out of the good treasure of his heart, bring- 
eth forth good things." Christ said, " When any one 
heareth the word of the Kingdom and understandeth 
it not, then cometh that wicked one and catcheth away 
that which was sown in his heart." Note the phrase 
"sown in his heart," which is in his emotions. This 
is the sowing of wisdom by the Holy Ghost ; not 
sown in the head, to be reasoned upon, but taken to 
reason by the will and there that evil one finds it — 
and lays hold upon it. 

The multitude reasoned concerning Jesus' power, 
when they said, " Whence hath this Man this wisdom 
and these mighty works? Is not this the carpenter's 
son? Is not his mother called Mary, and his brethren 
James, Joses, Simon and Judas? and his sisters, are 
they not all with us? Whence, then, hath this man 
all these things? And they were offended at Him." 

The same history is repeated to-day. " The poor wise 
man's wisdom is despised, and his words are not 
heard." He has not been instructed in institutions of 
learning; his knowledge is not reasonable; he is de- 

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mented or insane on the subject of religion; he is 
childish." All these railings and accusations are to- 
day made against many who are taught of God and 
receive power from on high, because they have not 
wisdom and know it not. Christ said of these : " In 
vain do they worship me, teaching for doctrines the 
commandments of men. Every plant which my 
Heavenly Father hath not planted shall be rooted up : 
let them alone, they be blind leaders." That beauti- 
ful humility of faith which is shown by the woman of 
Canaan, who came to Christ for help for her daughter, 
and when tried for the benefit of those about her, said, 
" Truth, Lord, yet the dogs eat of the crumbs that 
fall from their master's table." This is the spirit 
which makes the faith that is the real cry for food 
from on high, and this is the humble faith that is 
always filled with the food of wisdom; for, look you, 
that woman's daughter was made whole from that 
very hour — not only healed of her disease physically, 
but made whole. And Christ said, " Be it unto thee, 
even as thou wilt." 

This is the humility and faith thereby, of the little 
child — "and whosover shall humble himself as a 
little child," the same is greatest in the Kingdom of 
Heaven. Who, then, can question? Who can dare 
to say that man's knowledge and man's power, man's 
brain-ability and man's mind, is all powerful in 
science? "He that is greatest among you shall be 
your servant, and whosoever shall exalt himself shall 
be abased; but whoso humbleth himself shall be ex- 
alted." The spirit that exalts the ego shall be brought 
low; the will that humbles self before the mighty 
Mind of God, receives wisdom, receives instruction 
from on high, receives the Holy Ghost. 

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gnat and swallow a camel; but let us, in all humility, 
wait for the word of the Lord — for the grace of God, 
for He said, " My grace is sufficient for thee." God's 
grace is wisdom, His gift by the Holy Ghost, and with 
this grace "we are born again, not of corruptible 
seed, but of incorruptible, by the word of God, which 
liveth and abideth forever. For all the glory of man 
is as the flower of grass which falleth away: but the 
word of the Lord endureth forever." 

Wisdom is the principal thing: therefore, get wis- 
dom; exalt her and she shall promote thee; she shall 
bring thee to honor when thou dost embrace her; a 
crown of glory shall she deliver to thee" — the crown 
of fore-knowledge, a light that shineth through the 
darkness of thy head and illumines the path before 
thee. Wisdom is as a search-light into the future; 
it counts the strokes of the great clock of destiny as 
now, seeing the future in the now. Now is the day 
of salvation, now is the accepted time, now is the day 
of the Lord, now is eternity ; — not straggling aimlessly 
along life's path, hoping for a to-morrow out of the 
regrets of to-day (for this is man's vision when he 
lives by his reason), but making to-day the eternal 
to-morrow, is so embracing wisdom as to " keep the 
heart with all dihgence ; for out of it are the issues 
of life" — the issues of life, the onward march of eter- 
nity, the walking with God in eternal progress. If 
wisdom is better than rubies or fine gold, what will 
be the glory of the soul built in wisdom? How much 
will such a soul magnify the Lord and beautify His 
kingdom? 

'' The wellspring of wisdom is as a flowing brook," 
going back to the source from which it came, rising 
to great heights by light, and ever active in its course ; 
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for there is nothing out of wisdom that is true judg- 
ment, neither is there any justice, for justice is 
weighed and measured on the scales of individual 
judgments, which are legion, and cannot be counted 
by one (1) : therefore, justice is only an empty name 
and will bring the same condemnation that was given 
to the lawyers when Christ said, ** Woe unto you 
lawyers, for you have taken away the key of knowl- 
edge : ye entered not in yourselves, and them that 
were entering in, ye hindered." 

To draw from the wellspring of wisdom is to fol- 
low the word of our Saviour Christ in all things, at 
all times, and in all places and conditions of life. " And 
when they bring you into the synagogues and unto 
magistrates and powers, take ye no thought how or 
what thing ye shall answer, or what ye shall say: 
for the Holy Ghost shall teach you in the same hour 
what ye ought to say." 



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CURRENTS THAT UNSWATHE THE 
GLOBE AND ALL WORLDS. 

Spirit Entity, psychical evidences, physiological 
phenomena, all are made possible by the circular 
sweep of mind, which produces these currents that are 
omnipresent. All life is sustained by them, all acti- 
vity produced by them ; it is in these currents that we 
live, move, and have our being. " All fires are fed 
from the sun, all streams from the sea" by these 
same encircling currents. The discovery of telegraphy 
and all the powers of electricity are but a revelation of 
these mighty currents. Wireless telegraphy and tele- 
pathy are but clearer insights into the phenomena, 
and a nearer approach to the noumena. It is by these 
same currents that the pure white lily raises its beau- 
tiful head from the self-same soil that produces the 
nettle with its sting and gives to the grape-vine juice 
that can madden and cheer, and raises the mighty 
oak and elm above the lowly grasses. 

To these also are we indebted for all the wealth, 
beauty, and marvelous glory of the minerals and jewels 
of the earth, if we dare call them ours; ours only in 
trust, ours only for our growth and highest use, ours 
only for revelation and insight. The current that 
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to its bounds, is the same force or cause which holds 
the earth and all worlds suspended in space. The 
power of gravitation is one with the law of conscience. 

The flash of lightning is on the same principle that 
revelations of these truths are made to man; yet, 
when they come, man is lauded and almost deified as 
a wonderful discoverer. Do we exalt the cornstalk 
or the rose because they have appropriated the cur- 
rents that came into their lives? They have produced 
fruit by these same currents : are they, therefore, to be 
worshipped? " Render unto Caesar the things that are 
Caesar's, but unto God the things that are God's." 
It has recently been seen (discovered) that the cotton 
plant has appropriated many more currents, giving to 
it several properties that it was not known to have. 
Which is the greater power, the man who has found 
these properties existing in the cotton plant, the plant 
that was built by these currents of transmission, or 
the currents which carried the several properties; or, 
further still, the producer of the currents? Truth, 
beauty, and love are transmitted to man by currents 
in the same way, and by the same cause or noumena 
that carries the needful properties to the cotton plant, 
or crystalizes the carbon into the diamond. 

Life currents, according to position and condition, 
are termed : absorption, gravitation, radiation, air, 
water, wind, magnetism, electricity, spirit, nerves, etc. 
Some are applicable to the physical world of things, 
some to intellectual processes, while others are set 
apart in the moral world or world of spirit and soul, as 
it is called. In truth, there is no severing of life into 
worlds or classes; the physical life, the intellectual 
life, the moral life, the spiritual life, are all one life — 
one Whole. We can not separate one part from the 
other without weakening the whole ; we can not edu- 

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cate one phase of life to the exclusion and detriment 
of other phases without loss to the life — even that 
curve of it that is supposedly being grown; we can 
not appropriate this life current and reject another 
without death in some degree; we can not cultivate 
the physical as physical without crucifixion; we can 
not build soul if we refuse to breathe oxygen, any 
more than we can grow the intellect if we never see, 
smell, taste, touch, or hear. The whole grasp of life, 
with all its currents unified, seen in circular process, 
of oneness. Life re-risen, life proclaimed in all things, 
life transcendent and sublime is, in the fullest sense 
of the word, apperception. Christ's life was apper- 
ception. Every current of living force was unified in 
His concept; was utilized by Him in His every act 
consciously; therefore, His life was transcendent, was 
sublime. We are often conscious of sublimity in gaz- 
ing into the heart of a beautiful flower or watching a 
bird soar toward the skies. Why is this? Because 
the flower and the bird are utilizing and unifying all 
of life's forces or currents that come to them. If we 
really apperceived, we should be able to do what now 
is impossible to the majority of men. 

It was apperception of life — a clear consciousness of 
the unified currents of life to the finest spirit concep- 
tion in wisdom — that caused Christ to know and act, 
when the diseased woman touched the hem of His 
garment. There was a great assemblage, many cur- 
rents, much absorption and radiation at that moment; 
yet this one current was not unobserved, not left un- 
appropriated, by Christ. He raised it into the glory 
of the true circle of life. 

So long as the present looks to the past for instruc- 
tion and inspiration, so long will man fail, not only to 
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conception of them. Christ Hves, God is in heaven 
and earth, the Holy Ghost is ever present in this great 
circular sweep of mind. Then why persist in looking 
back, in living in and by the past? Christ is not 
dead ; He is risen. The true apperception of life, and 
that life, is by these mighty currents of mind making 
one perpetual, joyous Easter-day — a risen Lord — a 
living Redemption ! This is life, re-risen for all men. 

So far as assimilation of the currents of life is under- 
stood or made manifest by the majority, "self " is an 
infant from the first to the sixth year; an infant from 
the sixth to tenth year; an infant from tenth to twen- 
tieth year, and unborn in relation to certain currents 
from the twentieth year to the end of their physical 
existence. Much of this infant condition is due to the 
excuses placed upon human nature. We hear all 
along the life-line such ignorant and weak excuses 
as, *' We could not help this or that defective act; it 
was only human." " I do these things because it is 
my nature to do them; therefore, have me excused." 
Evil, even crimes, are glossed over on the plea of 
human nature ; and yet, did they but know it, that 
very humanity is the current that connects them with 
divinity and eternity; the gift of life that make us 
one with Christ and children of one Father, God ; the 
humanity that is capable of divinity. It is because 
we are human that there are currents of divine life 
that reveal to us all force, all life, all heaven — the One 
in all, and all in One. 

To know self is not to defraud the humanity ot 
self, nor to look into the mirror of the past continually ; 
but to look into the full, clear light of to-day, 
is to see reflected or foreshadowed the life force of 
to-morrow. 

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not advance this theory and that practice as a pre- 
paration for life, but as Hfe itself, in the currents that 
are now active for and to life ; not slowly crawling 
from past for future conditions by ignoring most of 
life's forces. This encrusted, housed, snail-like evo- 
lution is the cause of inactive mental powers, weak 
mentality, little or no mental phenomenon. 

When Pedagogy is the science of life and not the 
art of teaching, there will be more evidence of men- 
tality all along life's path from childhood to manhood ; 
with no pause platforms called periods of mental 
growth. The life-currents are continuous ; they do 
not pause or come in periods or seasons ; they are ever 
encircling the globe and all that makes the world. 
The loss or lack in humanity comes of non-appropria- 
tion and assimilation and resistance of much that 
makes for the fullness of life, the circle, and finally 
the consciousness of the sphere of life. The more we 
live in the currents, the more we are moving and liv- 
ing with the stream of eternal life ; thus, we grow in 
mentaHty, in revelation, in radiation of light; it 
matters not at what year of life, whether it be the 
fifth, fifteenth, or fiftieth, it is living reciprocity with 
mind ; and this is the solution of the psychic life of 
our blessed Lord from childhood. 

Why does the infant, the boy, the man, delight in 
a ball? Why will the adult enjoy a ball-game with as 
enthusiastic interest and pleasure as the little child? 
Because, in the ball itself, is the symbol of his own 
life ; and its activity is determined by the same forces 
that control his acts ; that keep him in space and con- 
nect him with space, matter, and mind. This in itself 
is conclusive evidence of the uninterrupted life-cur- 
rents. And we have them not in full and free co- 
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them, but prefer to live in the past by applying only 
those which have been grasped before by our pro- 
genitors. 

To be a student of Psychology is to know self, and 
to know self is to be a psychic. The one example of 
a known self, a psychic, is Christ, the true and per- 
fect Psychic. He had the whole living principle^-the 
principle of life, in all its currents, gathered into one 
human and divine Being. 

To apply psychology is truly to apply Christ; to 
apply His life principles to our lives in the fullest ac- 
tivity; to live in all the currents that make physical, 
moral, intellectual, mental, spiritual life one life — life 
re-risen, life born again, life by the Word of God. 
" Man does not live by bread alone, but by every word 
that proceedeth out of the mouth of God." — these are 
the currents of life over and under and about the phy- 
sical sustenance that only assists in supporting us. The 
currents of air, are an activity of a word of God that 
makes for life; bound up with the activity (another 
word of God) in the growth of grains ; as also currents 
that come to us in water, in electricity, and in spirit 
through the medium of absorption and the electric 
battery of nerves, called sensorium and motorium. 

The currents of spiritual magnetism (if it is clearer 
to so define them) come in the same channel, by the 
same road, that the awareness of hot or cold, light or 
darkness is conveyed — except, that the special sense- 
organs, as eye or ear, nose or mouth, are not used for 
transmission of these currents ; they are met by sense- 
nerves, and distributed by the emotive ganglia to 
what is known as heart-consciousness. We do not 
love with the head, but with the heart; we are not 
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by the heart ; we do not reverence and worship Christ 
with the brain, but with the heart. The emotive 
nerves and ganglia receive the currents of wisdom, 
and the motor ganglia execute the commands received. 
The most marvelous mechanism of the body is the 
nervous system ; the science of life becomes a known 
science by this system of nerves. All other organs of 
the body are merely accessory. For this is the instru- 
ment used in the transmission of wisdom, in the con- 
veyance of conscience (the voice of God), in the flood- 
tide of love, in the power of insight or intuition, in 
the development of what has been called the sixth 
sense, or seeing that which is invisible to others. All 
psychic phenomena are made manifest by this mar- 
velous nerve telegraphy. God approaches our hearts 
by this means; and it is our business, our first care 
and our constant watch that such a valuable instru- 
ment be made strong, clean, pure, and in perfect con- 
dition from birth, so that all the currents of life, all 
the promises of eternity, all the love of the Father, 
all the power of wisdom, will not be missed or lost 
because we are nervously in no condition to receive 
them. The avenues or wires, let us say, to the heart 
are obstructed, weighted down, corroded, rusted by 
misuse and disuse, and the flood-tide of mind has no 
inlet, and if no inlet certainly no outlet. The first 
reverent, prayerful care of the coming child and the 
babe, after birth, is the protection and nourishment 
of his nervous organism ; the gates of the soul, the 
inlet and outlet of mind, the keyboard of conscience, 
the eye of the eternity — that text book by which we 
may read the self, the psychic harp of a thousand 
strings. Shall we use this harp for melody, harmony, 
and glorious symphonies, or for clashing, dissension, 

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and discord? For where these are, God is not; the 
currents are thrown off, there is no means of attrac- 
tion. 

Many of the strings of this harp are distorted and 
unstrung, even snapped by the way we clothe the 
body that encases them, especially the pressure and 
weight brought to bear upon the nerves of the spine. 
The lightest possible weight clothing should be worn 
over the spine, with no pressure anywhere along the 
line of the vertebrae, from the base of the brain, to 
the end of the spinal column. Neither should the ribs 
be pressed, so as to cause any strain upon the back, 
or the clothing fastened or suspended from the waist- 
line. All weight should come from the shoulders, 
and that as little as possible. The nerves should have 
nothing at their ends to weaken their office or obstruct 
transmission of currents ; for by this means God speaks 
to man in every way, and enters the emotions (the 
heart) directly through the spinal nerves. Make a 
careful observation of sound-waves alone, independ- 
ent of other currents, and it will be found that they 
do not all, by any means, enter by the tympanum of 
the ear. The spine — or rather, the nerves of the spine 
— is the keyboard of conscience and the typewriter 
of wisdom. 

The deaf, dumb, and blind have conscience and mind 
communication ; yet the ear, eye, and vocal organs are 
paralyzed, useless. When stirred with sublime emo- 
tions — of love, joy, beauty, adoration, and worship — 
observe the entire organism of nerves (of the body 
self), and it will be clear to any physiologist that the 
currents are transmitted through the spinal nerves. 

To make a careful study of the self, one must know 
the body organs and their nerve connections, and by 
feeling will we best prove our connection with, and 

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relationship to, the mighty currents of life, good and 
evil. 

It has been said that " thoughts are things." 
Yes, verily, thoughts are currents generated by man, 
and communicated to man, animals, and the devil, but 
seen by God. 

Thought-currents pass into space from any point 
of the body from which they are directed. There is 
great activity of the body over and above that of the 
special organs and organic actions. Much there is 
in space that we do see, and much more is there that 
we do not see, because of our lack of wisdom — be- 
cause there is so much passing out over the strings 
of the harp that is of our own making — so many 
thoughts being manufactured in the brain by our false 
judgment, and reason; that discord and jangle are in 
the way, and we can not see with the eternal and 
spiritual eyes ; we can not feel the presence nor hear 
the symphonies of Heaven that are all about us ; 
and doubt, made by our conclusions, comes as a 
double barrier; when we hear, see, or read of some 
one who is free and open to the things that are in- 
visible and inaudible to the masses. The currents of 
mind are more mighty than we can begin to conceive 
of. " Eye hath not seen nor ear heard, neither hath 
it entered into the heart of man, the things which God 
hath prepared for them that love Him." These things 
are not in the process of preparation, but are prepared 
ready for their reception by those whose currents are 
flowing in the spirit of love of God ; thus their chan- 
nels and emotional harp-strings are attuned and in 
readiness to receive the things which God has pre- 
pared. For love is self-diremption, — the outpouring 
of all that is highest, strongest, purest, and best that 
the self has ever found — absolute flight of the self 

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from the self. The love-current is that which builds 
the soul otherwhere above; and the inordinate affec- 
tions and passions, the selfish emotions, or better 
called sense-excitations, build the soul otherwhere be- 
low. All these marvelous things are prepared and 
ready now for our acceptance — for our vision, if we 
will only live the abundant life ; only believe that now 
is the day of our salvation. Now we may receive the 
word ; now we may hear and see things that are 
shrouded in mystery — that are now invisible and in- 
audible. 

" Unseen by mortal eyes 

In the stillness of the night; 
There are those who wander 
O'er the earth 

In robes of airy Hght. 

Sweet messengers of love and hope, 

They journey to and fro, 
And consolation follows 

In their footsteps as they go. 

What are the heart's presentiments, 

Of coming joy or pain, 
But gently whispered warnings 

Of that guardian angel train? 

We hear them in our slumbers, 

And waking fantasy deems 
That busy thought was wandering 

In the fairy land of dreams. 

But the low, sweet strains we listed 
Were the strains that angels sing, 

To tempt our souls to soar: 

Bright gleams of heaven they bring. 

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When morning breaks above us, 

And we wake to busy day, 
These angels go before to guide 

And keep us on our way. 

When our feeble footsteps falter, 

All aweary and alone. 
In their arms they gently bear us, 

Lest we dash against a stone. 

In our journeyings, in our restings, 

On the land or on the sea, 
In our solitude and sorrow. 

In our gatherings and glee. 

In the day of degradation. 

In the hour of joy and pride, — 

These pure and watchful ministers 
Are ever by our side." 

To the physical eye the world is very beautiful ; but 
the eyes are holden, so that we see only half — no, not 
even a hundredth part of the beauty and glory that 
would be evident in these mighty currents all about 
us. The day is dawning for some who are sensitized 
into spiritual truth and light; that they will be par- 
takers of the glory that shall be revealed to them. 

The mother and father who stand by the child's 
crib while it sleeps, and sends out currents of love to 
that little one, are doing more for that child's nerve- 
organism and its whole future life-structure than all 
the caressing and fondling in its waking hours will 
ever do for him. 

" There remaineth a rest for the people of God." 
By many this is supposed to mean either in heaven 
or in paradise, the transition of the body between the 
spirit's flight and resurrection. Now, if we observe 

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those who are endowed with spiritual insight — wis- 
dom, or, as it is sometimes termed, the sixth sense, 
we will find that in the times of repose, in sleep, or 
when apart from the strain and stress of the crowd, 
is the surest, clearest psychic revelation. Poise, re- 
pose, inner-collectedness, is the condition of prayer; 
and true prayer is the outflow of the current of love. 
Christ said, " When thou prayest, enter into thy 
closet, and when thou hast shut the door of the mater- 
ial sense-activities, then is prayer; and this same rest 
is the pause between sense-world and self-world, be- 
tween physical and mental, that mental revelations 
are made. Mental symphonies played upon the 
harp of our emotions, and the rest remains — confidence 
in that which has been revealed, even if the whole 
world laughs it to scorn and ridicule, as it did Joseph, 
calling him '' that dreamer," and many others from 
whom the scales have been lifted, so that visions of 
the invisible are clear. 

It has been said that, if an infant smiles in sleep, 
the angels are talking to him. This is fuller of truth 
than is generally accepted. Surely the currents of 
Infinite love are being carried to its heart; for Christ 
has said, " Their angels do always behold the face of 
their Father in heaven." So, if we believe Christ, we 
must believe that currents of His love are in constant 
communication and touch, by spirit messengers, with 
the heart of the innocent child ; and they are in that 
rest, for they are the people of God in their purity 
and emptiness of the sense I, and receptiveness of the 
currents of truth and beauty, light and love, that sur- 
round them — especially when man's discordant spirits 
are shut out from them in sleep. The great beauty 
of the architectural work of the soul grows most in 
repose — in rest, for then are the spirits of mind surer 

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of finding entrance ; and only in that pause do we re- 
ceive the current messages that come in the waking 
hours, or in sleep. ''Be still, then, and know that I 
am God: I will be exalted in the heaven, and I will 
be exalted in he earth." 

The globe and all worlds are enswathed by God. 
He is Omnipresent. His light and love encompass the 
world, and Christ is with us always, " even unto the 
end;" in very truth; constantly endeavoring to com- 
municate that love, that truth, that light and abundant 
life of His, to men. Why will we not receive it all; 
Let us see to it that the means of communication, the 
point of contact, which the Father has provided be set 
in order for His coming. Let us prepare the way of 
the Lord, and make his paths straight, that all the 
mighty currents of light, life, and love may flow into 
our hearts, so that we may know the only true God, 
and Jesus Christ, whom He hath sent by the Holy 
Ghost. 

" Come, Holy Ghost, our hearts inspire 
And fill us with celestial fire." 

That great electric current of love and light from 
the Creator of love and light ! May we find it in every 
breath, and in every emotion that sways our being! 

"The wind that blows can never kill 
The tree God plants ; 
It bloweth east, it bloweth west; 
The tender leaves have little rest: 
But any wind that blows is best. 
The tree God plants 
Strikes deeper root, grows higher still, 
Spreads wider boughs ; for God's good-will 
Meets all its wants," 

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With this beautiful suggestion from LiUian E. 
Barr, we may draw for ourselves a new psychologic 
tree — a tree planted by the River of Life. 



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